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To: SmoothSail who wrote (1934)9/22/2009 9:13:44 PM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9622
 
Oh yes, I have a signed copy of that. It's a great book.

Ambrose is something of a hero of mine. He didn't just write about stuff from a desk, he got out in his canoe and floated and hiked the places he wrote about. I have his daughter's book too, and a couple others of his.

My sister has heard him lecture. She says it is a terrible tragedy that he accidentally omitted crediting a source and had plagiarism accusations that may have hastened his death.