Backpacking; One Step at a Time by Harvey Manning - 1972

Seattle, WA: REI Press, 1972 REI Press, Seattle, WA. 1972. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; slight shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; light dust soiling to text block top. DJ: Very Good; Price Clipped; light edge bumping to top edge; small closed tear on top rear panel. Green cloth boards and spine with black lettering in yellow border on spine. 356 pp 8vo. In 20 chapters, 91 cartoons, and more than 100 photographs, this book shows and tells even the absolute novice who scarcely knows the flowers from the birds, how he/she can make and easy, glad transition from city sidewalks to wilderness paths. Backpacking summarizes thousands of people-years on the trails of America. Backpacking is not exalted to the status either of science or religion, but treated as something of an art, mainly an attitude. This book is full of experience gained from backpacking around the world, from ocean beaches to the sounds of Mount Everest. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.