Walking to Extremes

by Howard McCord

For more than sixty-five years, since the age of twelve, Howard McCord has been a walker, rock climber, and spelunker across three continents -- and a poet-philosopher of the interactions between the mind and the natural world through more than twenty books. In Walking to Extremes , McCord recounts hiking the arctic deserts of Iceland and the hot deserts of New Mexico, and of returning after many years to a peak in the Organ Mountains. He writes with the compelling vitality of an adventurer and the engaging curiosity of a naturalist and historian, making Walking to Extremes an essential book for the armchair explorder as well as the most ardent backpacker. With five photographs and one drawing.

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[C. James · Rating 4 out of 5]

Poet Howard McCord has been a mountain climber and long-distance hiker for most of his adult life. "Walking to Extremes" is not another hiking book but a trip through time, space and of the mind of the author, filled with the history geography and geology of the places he has been. It is one of those books filled with penetrating imagery that you don't want to end.