http://madronoranch.com/?p=297 Sun, 25 Sep 2016 11:55:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 http://madronoranch.com/?p=297#comment-26 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:03:29 +0000 http://madronoranch.com/?p=297#comment-26 I'm happy with Stegner; I think Angle of Repose conveys, perhaps better than any other book I've read, the sense of the American West as a distinctive place, and what it was like to be a human seeking to inhabit and/or conquer it. Besides, I'm not sure which of Bryson's books would qualify for this list: A Walk in the Woods? A Short History of Nearly Everything?

]]> http://madronoranch.com/?p=297#comment-25 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:15:23 +0000 http://madronoranch.com/?p=297#comment-25 Angle of Repose might be a little bit of a stretch. Maybe Bill Brison deserves consideration.

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