Zen Travels
Many have read Pirsig's ZATAOMM. Now Mark Richardson has written Zen and Now....which is a loose recreation of the route. Seems a good read so far....
Anyone travelling in the western US should read A.B. Guthrie's The Big Sky (Montana).....and of course Ed Abbey's Desert Solitaire (Utah)... Wallace Stegner's Wolf Willow (Southern Saskatchewan) ... and Ted Bishop's Riding with Rilke (Western Canada)
For related but slightly different technology....Guzzwell's Trekka (sailing RTW)...anyhitng by Miles Smeeton...M.Wylie Blanchett's Curve of Time (Coastal BC), and The Incredible Voyage by Tristan Jones. (Lake Titicaca....and down the Plate River in SA)...all make great day enders....
Other good titles Bruce Kirkby's Sand Dance....a retrace of Wilfred Thesinger's camel trek across the empty quarter....and Chatwin's In Patagonia...
All good stuff for the winter.....
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