An On-Going Hiker's Journal.. (beginning) July 2009

August 13, 2014

Photosynthesis has slowed/ stopped in the trees here at this latitude north. Some are paling- out/ some duller green and the late summer wildflowers are yellow. The rabbit brush is healthy and full and the seed heads are nearly ready to pop.

The reading list follows:

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• Arctic Aurora : Canada's Yukon and Northwest Territories / John Holt. 

• Arctic sun on my path : the true story of America's last great polar explorer / Willie Knutsen and Will C. Knutsen ; foreword by William W. Fitzhugh.                                       

• Cold : adventures in the world's frozen places / Bill Streever. 

 

• Curse of the black gold : 50 years of oil in the Niger Delta / photographs by Ed Kashi ; edited by Michael Watts.                                                                                                                      
• Blue-eyed boy : a memoir / Robert Timberg.