| Our Last Backpack: A Memoir Contributor(s): Doan, Daniel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0881502731 ISBN-13: 9780881502732 Publisher: Countryman Press OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Walking - Travel | United States - General - Sports & Recreation | Hiking |
| Dewey: 796.510 |
| LCCN: 93015766 |
| Series: Hiking & Climbing |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.02" W x 9" (0.82 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: One of them, Daniel Doan, is the author of this story of their week-long adventure. The other, Dr. Claud Sharps, a Laconia veterinarian, was Doan's old friend and hiking companion from childhood. Our Last Backpack recounts in lyrical but direct prose their encounters along the trail, Doan's growing awareness of his own physical limitations, and the clash of cultures between two old-fashioned mountain men and the new age of backpacking. This book is also a beautiful testament to a deep and abiding friendship between two utterly different personalities who shared a profound love of the woods. |
Contributor Bio(s): Doan, Daniel: - Daniel Doan hiked the White Mountains of New Hampshire for nearly 70 years while writing novels, short stories, a history of the Indian Stream Republic, the memoir Our Last Backpack, and two hiking guides, Explorer's Guide 50 Hikes in the White Mountains and Explorer's Guide 50 More Hikes in New Hampshire. Recipient of the New Hampshire Writers' Project Lifetime Achievement Award, he died in 1993. |