The Thousand-Mile Summer by Colin Fletcher is the author's chronicle of his 1958 hike along the entire eastern edge of California.

Fletcher writes of traveling on foot along the Colorado River, though Death Valley and the High Sierra.

God is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness.

But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun, and you learn only geography.

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