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The Greatest Show On Earth, by Richard Dawkins
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Our Enemy The State, by Albert Jay Nock
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Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis
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The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
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I appreciate all of the recommendations.
I'll bookmark this thread and refer back to it.
Thanks,..
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Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis One of the best I've read along with Mere Christian, by Charles Colsen.
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Ken Follet's Fall of Giants is a good read. It's well put together tale of the events leading up to and including some of WWI. It has many sub plots featuring several different individuals and how the events affect them personally.
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Its fiction, but Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth and World without end are both excellent. I really enjoyed "Hunter" by J.A Hunter as well, if your into the whole African hunting thing,and its non-fiction.
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Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis Good. But for back-and-forth, really enjoy the screw tape riffs...
Epstein didn't kill himself.
"Play Cinnamon Girl you Sonuvabitch!"
Biden didn't win the election.
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Campfire Sage
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Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis Good. But for back-and-forth, really enjoy the screw tape riffs... Another great book.
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Some of the non-fiction books I've felt compelled to read more than once:
Son of the Morning Star, Evan S. Connell
Rising Tide, John M. Barry
Isaac�s Storm, Erik Larson
The Class of 1846, John C. Waugh
The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
Theodore Rex, Edmund Morris
Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond
The Scramble for Africa, Thomas Pakenham
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, several versions
South, Ernest Shackleton
The Exploration of the Colorado River, John Wesley Powell
Scouting on Two Continents, Major Frederick Russell Burnham
Journal of a Trapper, Osborne Russell and Aubrey L. Haines
Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain
A History of Britain, Simon Schama
Ends of the Earth, Roy Chapman Andrews
My India, Jim Corbett
The Lost Explorer, Conrad Anker
The Tiger, John Vaillant
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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Thanks Mule Deer! For some reason I did not realize "Scouting On Two Continents" was still in print!!!!
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Any think Robert Ruark wrote, "Horn of the hunter" is a good starting point, "The old man and the boy" another great read.
Or Hemingway, "For whom the bell tolls" those will get you started. I've tried to read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms has been sittin' on the toilet tank for a year or more. It just don't grab me. I understand that felling, I didn't care for A Farewell to Arms at all. For Whom the Bell Tolls is a much better read. Whatever you do, don't look at To Have and Have Not, I quit reading Hemingway after that one. Dreadnought by Massie, A Distant Mirror by Tuckman and Manchester's biographies of Winston Churchill are among my favorite non-fiction. Oh, and Killer Angels by Shaara.
'Four legs good, two legs baaaad."
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"Jimmy, some of it's magic,
Some of it's tragic,
But I had a good life all the way."
(Jimmy Buffett)
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kaywoodie,
As far as I know, Scouting on Two Continents isn't still in print. But copies aren't hard to find.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis Easily in the top 10 best Christian books in the last 1900 years. Probably in the top 5.
'Four legs good, two legs baaaad."
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"Jimmy, some of it's magic,
Some of it's tragic,
But I had a good life all the way."
(Jimmy Buffett)
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Yes I just looked again! And I see they are used copies! Thanks!!! One of my old boyhood heroes, that Burnham!
Founder
Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
WS
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Ok, I'm still up. Lord Grizzly, a true story of a frontier scout malled by a Great Plains grizzly at a water hole in the Dakotas and left for dead by his young compatriots, details his crawling two hundred miles toward a fort, driven by revenge on those who left him for dead.
Must read for the likes of here..!
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I just finished "The Windward Road" by Archie Carr.
It is a look at the non-pc world of yesteryear, written by a man of science who pursued conservation of the oceanic turtles. He also obviously admired the cultures which hunted and subsisted on their hunting of those same turtles.
"Chances Will Be Taken"
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Would that be the book from which "Man in the Wilderness" was made?
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery.
Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
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Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose
An excellent detailing of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
I recommend this book to anyone who hasn't read it. There are so many fascinating little details of the expedition that most people don't even know.
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