Shane Abbott

Excellent Book! A great convergence of philosophy, psychology, adventure, outdoorsmanship, and some nice doses of spirituality. Here's one of the many passages I have highlighted in my copy: "It's simple. All you have to do is fail to update your mental map and then persist in following it even when the landscape (or your compass) tries to tell you it's wrong. Edward Cornell once told me "Whenever you start looking at your map and saying something like, 'Well, that lake could have dried up,' or, 'that boulder could have moved,' a red light should go off. You're trying to make reality conform to your expectations rather than seeing what's there. In the sport of orienteering they call that 'bending the map.'" I keep finding myself going back to this one because of the great cross-disciplinary illustrations and applications I find in it. This book transcends it's genre. If you enjoyed Persig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and Lansing's "Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage" then you should and will enjoy this book.