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The Man Who Walked Through Time

The Man Who Walked Through Time

Colin Fletcher
The first person to hike the entire length of the Grand Canyon — rim to rim, through the inner gorge. Fletcher did it alone in 1963, and his account invented the genre of the long contemplative walk.
desert Hiking & Walking Narrative Nonfiction American Southwest
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Publisher Alfred A. Knopf
Published 1967
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