The Complete Walker IV

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David Coles’s updated Soft Paths: How to Enjoy the Wilderness Without Harming It is

Beyond Backpacking, a guide to lightweight hiking by the protean Ray Jardine:

went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.