Outdoor Literature (PE 4440)

 

Lecture Notes

   

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Colin Fletcher & Edward Abbey


Your Assignment:  Edward Abbey AND Colin Fletcher in the Anthology (pp. 145 - 156)

 

GI Generation.  Colin Fletcher is from the GI Generation.  Colin Fletch is originally from Great Britain, but we'll look at this generation from an American perspective:

 

 

Lost GenerationBasics

Born between 1900 – 1924

Civic Type

 

Youth

1902 Wright Brothers – First Flight
1914-18 World War I

 

Rising Adults
1927 Charles Lindbergh – Transatlantic Flight
1929 Stock Market Crash & Depression
1932 Roosevelt Elected / New Deal


Adults & Midlife
1941 Pearl Harbor – World War II
1945 European War Ends
1950's Cold War & McCarthy Hearings
1961 Kennedy Elected
1965 Johnson's Great Society
1969 Apollo 11 – Moon Landing

 

Elders

1981 Ronald Reagan Elected
1989 Spread of Democracy in Eastern Europe

 

Summary

 

Colin FletcherColin Fletcher
1922 – 2007
GI Generation


The following shows Fletcher's 1963 route. . .


Colin Fletcher's Route Backpacking Route Through the Grand Canyon

 

 

Silent Generation

 

Edward Abbey is from the Silent Generation:

 

Silent GenerationBasics

Born between 1925 – 1942

Adaptive Type

 

Youth

1927 Charles Lindbergh – Transatlantic Flight
1929 Stock Market Crash & Depression
1932 Roosevelt Elected / New Deal
1941 Pearl Harbor – World War II

 

Rising Adults
1950's Cold War & McCarthy Hearings
1957 Spudnik. Rock & Roll. Beat Movement.
1961 John Kennedy becomes President


Adults & Midlife
1969 Apollo 11 – Moon Landing
1974 Watergate Scandal
1981 Ronald Reagan Elected
1989 Exxon Valdez Spill

 

Elders

1993 Exponential Growth of Internet
2001 September 11th terrorist attacks;

 

Summary

 

Edward AbbeyEdward Abbey

1927 – 1989

Silent Generation

In our reading from the "Havasu" chapter in Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey spends time in the Havasupai Indian village of Supia, shown on the map below:

 

Supai - Havasu Chapter in Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire

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