Into the Wild is widely considered to be a classic in terms of outdoor-related movies. It’s widely considered one of the best movies of the 2000s in general. I certainly agree. The 2007 Sean Penn-directed release appeared to grippingly capture the sadly short saga of Chris McCandless, a self-turned vagrant who roamed North America in …
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey is widely considered a classic in the outdoors, non-fiction genre, and hence I had to read it. It’s actually been quite some time since I last put it down, finishing it last Summer while I was volunteering full-time at the remote Algonquin Wildlife Research Station. There couldn’t have been a …
I have just recently finished reading “The Indifferent Stars Above” by Daniel James Brown and I feel moved to offer some of my own feelings about this excellent book. Its subject matter covers a number of topics that interest me greatly. That being: History (particularly the age of western colonization), exploration, and survival. The story …
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