Our Last Backpack - A Memoir

One of them, Daniel Doan, is the author of this story of their week-long adventure. The other, Dr. Claud Sharps, a Laconia veterinarian, was Doan's old friend and hiking companion from childhood. Our Last Backpack recounts in lyrical but direct prose their encounters along the trail, Doan's growing awareness of his own physical limitations, and the clash of cultures between two old-fashioned mountain men and the new age of "backpacking." This book is also a beautiful testament to a deep and abiding friendship between two utterly different personalities who shared a profound love of the woods.

About the author

Daniel Doan hiked the White Mountains of New Hampshire for nearly 70 years while writing novels, short stories, a history of the Indian Stream Republic, the memoir Our Last Backpack, and two hiking guides, Explorer's Guide 50 Hikes in the White Mountains and Explorer's Guide 50 More Hikes in New Hampshire. Recipient of the New Hampshire Writers' Project Lifetime Achievement Award, he died in 1993.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Doan
• Publisher: Countryman Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.1993
• EAN: 9780881502732
• ISBN: 978-0-88150-273-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 371 g
• Series: Hiking & Climbing; Hiking & Climbing
• Subject: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history