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zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Jan 21, 2013 - 12:06pm PT

Some folks benn here a long time.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jan 21, 2013 - 12:18pm PT
Jaybro, HaHaHa! I'd completely forgotten why I always talk to the crows.
Been doing it so long now I'd come to think it was natural.

Toker, if ya like Sir Burton then you'd like My Life As An Explorer by Sven Hedin.
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Jan 21, 2013 - 02:21pm PT
Some authors/books I have appreciated (Climbing literature not included):

Bram Stoker. "Dracula".
Henri Charriere. "Papillon".
Tolkien. "The Lord of the Rings".
Franz Kafka. "The Process".
Anthony Burgess. "A Clockwork Orange".
Friedrich Nietzsche. Especially "The Gay Science" and "Thus Spoke Zarathustra".
Isaac B. Singer, Yasir Kemal and Yukio Mishima. Many books by the great storytellers.
Italo Calvino. "Invisible Cities".
Joseph Conrad. Especially “Heart of Darkness” and “Lord Jim”.
Goethe. "Faust".
Samuel Beckett. Especially "Molloy", "Endgame" and "Waiting for Godot".
Cormac McCarthy. Especially “Blood Meridian” and “The Border Trilogy”.
Chris Argyris. Especially "Knowledge for action" and "Overcoming Organizational Defences".
James Flaherty. "Coaching. Evoking excellence in others".
Maurizio Viroli. "Niccolo’s Smile".
Christina and Richard Milner. "Black Players. The Secret World of Black Pimps".
Richard Cohen. "Chasing the Sun".
James Karman. "Stones of Sur". (Poetry by Robinson Jeffers and photos by Morely Baer)
Bernadette McDonald. "Freedom Climbers".
Lynn Hill. "Climbing Free"
John Lloyd and John Mitchinson. "The Book of General Ignorance. Everything you think you know is wrong".
Malcolm Gladwell. "What the Dog Saw and Other adventures".
Jane Reichhold. "Basho. The Complete Haiku".
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