Volume 49, Number 14 · September 26, 2002
The Hiker's Gospel
By Bill McKibben
The Complete Walker IV
by Colin Fletcher and Chip Rawlins
Knopf, 845 pp., $39.95; $22.95 (paper)
Though we like to tell ourselves that we live in complicated times, our daily lives are in fact simpler than humans have ever known. Want warmth? Turn up the thermostat. Want to stay dry? Between the automatic door opener on your garage and the indoor parking spot by the office, you're unlikely to get damp more than twice a year, and when you do you can toss your shirt in the dryer.
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