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    Another book for my reading list: "Wilderness Warrior"

    "Men of small caliber in public office find scorn of expert knowledge a convenient screen for hiding their own mental barrenness." (Wilderness Warrior, p. 411)

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    I'm reading Nothing to envy, ordinary lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. This is a great read! Stories from defectors about life in North Korea. There's a lot of survival.

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    I am starting "The Road"
    by Carmac McCarthy.
    Keep in mind the problem may be extremely complicated, though the "Fix" is often simple...

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    Quote Originally Posted by COWBOYSURVIVAL View Post
    I am starting "The Road"
    by Carmac McCarthy.
    I read that. It's a spooky one!

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    Not sure I will be able to get into it...sayin' it is spooky. Just trying to expand my closed mind.
    Keep in mind the problem may be extremely complicated, though the "Fix" is often simple...

    "Teaching a child to fish is the "original" introduction to all that is wild." CS

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    In the middle of TESTAMENT by David Morrell.
    A Suspense story of vengeance, manhunt and wilderness survival at it's most harrowing. Hard to put down.

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    Douglas Brinkley (author of "Wilderness Warrior") is a terrific writer. He lives in New Orleans and has also talked and written about the whole Catrina debacle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BENESSE View Post
    Douglas Brinkley (author of "Wilderness Warrior") is a terrific writer. He lives in New Orleans and has also talked and written about the whole Catrina debacle.
    Rick...look! Another case of double words! LOL
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    Quote Originally Posted by BENESSE View Post
    In the middle of TESTAMENT by David Morrell.
    A Suspense story of vengeance, manhunt and wilderness survival at it's most harrowing. Hard to put down.
    I have a first edition of his first book. Someday it will be worth some serious money.
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    Well I am reading a cookbook....yep a cookbook. Cee Dub's Dutch oven and other Camp Cookin' by C.W. "Butch" Welch - "A Back Country Guide to Outdoor Cooking spiced with tall tales". He is a well known back country guide/cook who had a show on RFD TV for a while.(Not sure if it's still on the air or not) Probably the only Cookbook I'll ever read from cover to cover. Mixed in with recipes and methods are stories of some of his trips.
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    I've just finished A Rifle Through My Drawers - A Year in the Life Of Clarissa Dickson Wright. She's a great raconteur and staunch defender of all things Hunting and Fishing and a foremost member of the Countryside Alliance. (She also writes the most brilliant Cookbooks)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sourdough View Post
    I have a first edition of his first book. Someday it will be worth some serious money.
    I am glad you have it because I had a feeling you'd like reading it.
    AS, too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BENESSE View Post
    I am glad you have it because I had a feeling you'd like reading it.
    AS, too.
    His first book I bought in 1973 titled "First Blood" when they made the movie "Rambo" they changed the location from the south east to the north west.

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