Full name: Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War And Wilderness

Author: Doug Peacock Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Memoirs, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780910055994 0910055998

When he wrote The Monkey Wrench Gang in 1975, Edward Abbey became the spokesperson for a generation of Americans angered by the unthinking destruction of our natural heritage. Without consultation, Abbey based the central character of eco-guerilla George Washington Hayduke on his friend Doug Peacock. Since then Peacock has become an articulate environmental individualist writing about the West's abundant wildscapes.Abbey and Peacock had an at times stormy, almost father and son relationship that was peacefully resolved in Abbey's last days before his death in 1989. This rich recollection of their relationship and the dry places they explored are recalled in Peacock's honest and heartfelt style in this poignant memoir. Similar books: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir In Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolff An Accidental Autobiography by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Burning the Days by James Salter Between Them by Richard Ford Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy Seldom Disappointed by Tony Hillerman My History by Antonia Fraser Goat by Brad Land How I Grew by Mary McCarthy Scoundrel Time by Lillian Hellman Born Naked by Farley Mowat Slipstream by Elizabeth Jane Howard An Unfinished Woman by Lillian Hellman Being Jordan by Katie Price A Fort of Nine Towers by Qais Akbar Omar Faith Under Fire by Roger Benimoff How Dare the Sun Rise by Sandra Uwiringiyimana It Happened on the Way to War by Rye Barcott Rule Number Two by Heidi Squier Kraft