One of them, Daniel Doan, is the author of this story of their week-long adventure. The other, Dr. Claud Sharps, a Laconia veterinarian, was Doan's old friend and hiking companion from childhood. Our Last Backpack recounts in lyrical but direct prose their encounters along the trail, Doan's growing awareness of his own physical limitations, and the clash of cultures between two old-fashioned mountain men and the new age of "backpacking." This book is also a beautiful testament to a deep and abiding friendship between two utterly different personalities who shared a profound love of the woods.
- ISBN10 0881502731
- ISBN13 9780881502732
- Publish Date 7 November 1996
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 12 March 2017
- Publish Country US
- Publisher WW Norton & Co
- Imprint Countryman Press Inc.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English