false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1238610168m/626550.jpg 728348 5 Colin Fletcher is a self-described "compulsive walker." It is not unusual for him to pick up a map, drive to an area that intrigues him, and then start walking. It should come as no surprise then that a detour from U.S. 66 to visit the Grand Canyon on a June morning in 1963 inspired Fletcher to walk the length of the Canyon below the rim. In <I>The Man Who Walked Through Time</I> Fletcher recounts his amazing journey. For two months Fletcher struggled against heat and cold, lack of water and dwindling supplies. The terrain was, at times, nearly impassible, yet despite the physical hardships, Fletcher came away from his experience with a new awareness of how humans fit into the vast scheme of things. He writes, for example, of meeting a rattlesnake on Beaver Sand Bar: "Now I am no rattlesnake <I>aficionado</I>. The first rattler I met scared me purple, and killing it seemed a human duty.... Yet by the end of that California summer I no longer felt an unreasoning fear of rattlers.... Instead, I accepted them as organisms with a niche in the web of life. Accepted them, that is, as fellow creatures."<p> <I>The Man Who Walked Through Time</I> is a remarkable account of a journey both physical and spiritual. It is also a record of the Grand Canyon as it was before the massive influx of tourism. Fletcher's descriptions of the spectacular geography, the wildlife, and the remnants of much older cultures serve to remind us that the Grand Canyon has been around longer than humankind and may well outlast us. 714549 1967 The Man Who Walked Through Time: The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon total:118|5:22|4:54|3:35|2:6|1:1| 118 444 192 31 3 0 false false Sat May 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 20:00:37 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 20:16:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1977 Wed Feb 11 16:57:58 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 17:09:55 -0800 2009 2 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 10:00:21 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 10:03:06 -0700 2009
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