The Thousand-Mile Summer in Desert and High Sierra.
"God is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness. But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun, and you learn only geography. Watch darkness claim it, and for a moment you may grasp why God had to create Satan--or man to create both": First Edition of Colin Fletcher's Thousand Mile Summer; Signed by Him
The Thousand-Mile Summer in Desert and High Sierra.
FLETCHER, Colin.
$950.00
Item Number: 132615
Berkeley, CA: Howell-North Books, 1964.
First edition of Fletcher’s classic first book. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs from the author. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on half title page, “For J.P. Cohn From Colin Fletcher.” Also laid in is an autographed note signed, “Dear J.P.– Fatefully– because it was your suggestion in the first place that I approach the Chronicle. Best, Colin.” Also laid in are two folded color brochures: The Man Who Walked Through Time with the author’s printed Berkeley address label affixed and a note from author on novelty stationery, “Dear J.P.– Just occurred to me that you might be interested to see that I’m still using ‘your’ title. Also plan to use it for a book and for an article that the Digest has given the ‘go-ahead. Best, Colin.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
The Thousand Mile Summer by Colin Fletcher is the author's chronicle of his 1958 hike along the entire eastern edge of California. Fletcher writes of traveling on foot along the Colorado River, though Death Valley and the High Sierra.
