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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:39 pm
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I just finished reading this book yesterday. I first saw the movie on PBS last year and as I'm a book addict I added it to my winter reading list. What a life did this man got. Kind of a meditation book. Highly recommended read.
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I haven't read the book but when I want to relax I watch the film (PBS)!

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Both are great. :)
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Thank you for the tip; 'will check it out.


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Seen this movie not long ago called 'Into The Wild'. Was interesting as well, sounds like around the same line.


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All of these sound like my kind of reading/watching. I'm a professional watcher! :wink:


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Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:49 pm
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Claude Gallichand wrote:
I just finished reading this book yesterday. I first saw the movie on PBS last year and as I'm a book addict I added it to my winter reading list. What a life did this man got. Kind of a meditation book. Highly recommended read.
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Saw the show on PBS about 15 times. What a wood-worker and a true outdoorsman!!

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Sounds like a cool documentary, I love stuff like this. My old dad used to work in Alaska, he had some great stories from there. Bears walking down what they called Main street, an amazing place. I'll need to watch out for this one, thanks to the OP.


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I also read the book and have watched the PBS film multiple times. I really enjoyed it quite a bit. To a certain extent the film was "produced". The narrator was not actually Dick Proenneke but someone else who just happens to have a very friendly comforting voice. Had Dick Proenneke been the actual narrator, I don't think the film would have been nearly as successful.


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atolleter wrote:
Seen this movie not long ago called 'Into The Wild'. Was interesting as well, sounds like around the same line.


I also read this book and they took only the Chris McAndless story from it to do the Sean Penn movie. But the guy who wrote it tells some parts of his own story plus about ten other sad ending stories as well. Into the wild is a unique point of view on lives ending too soon, for questionable reasons, really not the same line as one man's wilderness who is a celebration of life without the "New and improved" artificial part. Into the wild is a really good read too but not for everyone, because of the sadness of the subject.
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I also read the book and have watched the PBS film multiple times. I really enjoyed it quite a bit. To a certain extent the film was "produced". The narrator was not actually Dick Proenneke but someone else who just happens to have a very friendly comforting voice. Had Dick Proenneke been the actual narrator, I don't think the film would have been nearly as successful.


+1. But the cool fact is that someone was impressed enough to write the book from scattered pieces of informations that Dick Proenneke left. And another guy wrapped up a few of his film work to do a extraordinaire documentary about the man. To each one his own, the axe to Proenneke, the microphone to the narrator, the camera to the director and the pen to the writer, talk about team work. 8)
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One Man's Wilderness and Into the Wild are both great books and films. I like anything travel related especially the Appalachian trail/Long trail/wilderness related.

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Fenderseeker09 wrote:
One Man's Wilderness and Into the Wild are both great books and films. I like anything travel related especially the Appalachian trail/Long trail/wilderness related.


Are you an Appalachian hiker or a true hicker yourself?
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Claude Gallichand wrote:
Fenderseeker09 wrote:
One Man's Wilderness and Into the Wild are both great books and films. I like anything travel related especially the Appalachian trail/Long trail/wilderness related.


Are you an Appalachian hiker or a true hicker yourself?
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Right now I am merely an armchair hiking enthusiast...I think I've read most AT books out there. Someday I would like to do both the LT and the AT. Who knows...maybe write my first song from the experience?! 8)

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Fenderseeker09 wrote:
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Fenderseeker09 wrote:
One Man's Wilderness and Into the Wild are both great books and films. I like anything travel related especially the Appalachian trail/Long trail/wilderness related.


Are you an Appalachian hiker or a true hicker yourself?
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Right now I am merely an armchair hiking enthusiast...I think I've read most AT books out there. Someday I would like to do both the LT and the AT. Who knows...maybe write my first song from the experience?! 8)


I read a book written by a true hiker about ten years ago. He said he registered at both ends of the Appalachian trail thus making him a true hiker. His experience moved him so much, he had to let it out and for him it took the form of a book. Good luck with your project of hiking and writting a song about it. 8)
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