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Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War And Wilderness (original 2005; edition 2005)

by Doug Peacock

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"Doug Peacock's tale brings us epic personalities, traumatizing war, grizzly bears, and wildass adventure. A former Green Beret medic in Vietnam, he was mythologized by Edward Abbey as George Washington Hayduke in his environmental classic The Monkey Wrench Gang. Peacock has since become celebrated for his wildlife writing, his book Grizzly Years, and his tireless struggle to help preserve what is wild both in and around us."--BOOK JACKET.… (more)
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Title:Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War And Wilderness
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Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War And Wilderness by Doug Peacock (2005)

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Bought this book over a dozen years ago, couldn't get into it then. Put it aside. Just tried again. Still find it tedious, repetitive. Peacock was a Green Beret medic in Vietnam. Came home disillusioned and damaged - PTSD. Took him years to acknowledge it. Left his Michigan home to wander the parched, arid deserts of the Southwest, where he met and became friends with the ornery author-environmentalist Ed Abbey. His marriage comes apart. Abbey dies. Peacock studies grizzly bears. Walks and explores. Hikes and thinks. For years. Remarries, More hiking, cogitating, remembering Vietnam, figuring things out. Pages and pages of hiking, endless descriptions of flora and fauna, missing his friend and mentor, Abbey. Sorry, but I was skimming and glazing over. A very strange mix of war memoir and nature study. Just did not work for me. And I'm from Michigan too, and I've read and enjoyed Ed Abbey's books. So I wanted to like it, but, finally, could not. Not recommended.

- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER ( )
  TimBazzett | Feb 26, 2020 |
a combat veteran looks for inner peace in the wilderness. it is also a story about a friendship even two men. and it studies life by looking at death ( )
  michaelbartley | Jun 4, 2017 |
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"Doug Peacock's tale brings us epic personalities, traumatizing war, grizzly bears, and wildass adventure. A former Green Beret medic in Vietnam, he was mythologized by Edward Abbey as George Washington Hayduke in his environmental classic The Monkey Wrench Gang. Peacock has since become celebrated for his wildlife writing, his book Grizzly Years, and his tireless struggle to help preserve what is wild both in and around us."--BOOK JACKET.

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