[Poll Book Tally] The Man Who Walked Through Time by Colin Fletcher 2 stars

[Karin]

At the start I thought I'd like this book, but it wasn't quite what I was expecting. Yes, it chronicles his walk through the entire part of the Grand Canyon that is in the national park (c. 1000 miles), but it also contains his musings and meditations and when he came to dangerous bits it really isn't edge of your seat sort of writing. He also didn't win me over with his personality as put on paper. That said, some parts of it were interesting, but having read other nonfiction books of journeys though there it wasn't as interesting as it might have been for me. This man also did a 1000 mile walk through California, so if you like this book, he has another he wrote before it on that. I'll pass.

There are parts he was the first person to walk on due to the opening of the Glen Canyon Dam a few months before, so evidently this was published the year following his trek.