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not old relatives. I rifle the bookshelves of whatever relative has trapped me at their four hour Christmas party. I search the coffee table of the great-aunt who insisted I go to sleep on a mothball scented afghan at 8:30 p.m. Everyone has at least one good book in their house, and randomly sampling the reading tastes of others can get you out of the Tbm Clancy/DaVinci Code rut you may have dug for yourself. Below is an eclectic sampling of some of the best books I have found on other people’s shelves. They’re all books that fit a bit outside normal classification and are good examples of the way someone else’s books can break you out of the comfortable reading holes you’re used to.
1. One Man’s Wilderness by Sam Keith from the journals and photographs of Richard Proenneke. Published in 1973, this is the journal of an ex-engineer who went to Twin Lakes, Alaska to live on his own. Proenneke builds a log cabin, fives through an Alaskan winter, and records the experience in words and photos. It’s immediately clear that this isn’t another My Side of the Mountain, concerned with modem man learning to cope in the wilderness. There’s no bear, lumber or temperature that Proenneke cannot cope with. He can build, fix, or hunt anything, and (with assistance from friend Sam Keith) make chopping wood sound intensely satisfying.
“The sharp smell of spruce in the air, the rushing powerful noises of the creek, the fit feeling of blood surging through the muscles . . .Folks say that axemanship is a lost art, but I like
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