Books
Manning is most famous for being the editorial committee chair for the first edition of Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills, which is the standard textbook for climbing and scrambling. The first edition was so successful that it created the Mountaineers Books publishing outlet.
Manning is also noted for writing the "100 Hikes" series of hiking guidebooks, along with Ira Spring:
- 50 Hikes in Mount Rainier National Park (1969) ISBN 0-89886-572-7
- 101 Hikes in the North Cascades (1970) ISBN 0-916890-82-1
- 102 Hikes in the Alpine Lakes, South Cascades, and Olympics (1971) ISBN 0-89886-067-9
- 100 Hikes in the South Cascades and Olympics (1985) ISBN
- 100 Hikes in the Glacier Peak Region (1988) ISBN 0-89886-868-8
- 55 Hikes in Central Washington (1990) ISBN 0-89886-510-7
- 100 Classic Hikes in Washington (1998) ISBN 0-89886-586-7 (Winner National Outdoor Book Award, Design and Artistic Merit, 1998)
- 55 Hikes around Snoqualmie Pass (2001) ISBN 0-89886-777-0
These guidebooks are the standard books for hiking throughout western Washington.
Manning also wrote many other books on outdoor activities, including:
- Backpacking: One Step at a Time (1972) ISBN 0-394-74290-7
- Footsore, Vols 1-4 (1977) ISBN 0-89886-065-2 (a series of guidebooks to hiking near Issaquah, Washington).
- Walking the Beach to Bellingham (1986) ISBN 0-87071-547-X
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Famous quotes containing the word books:
“My residence was more favorable, not only to thought, but to serious reading, than a university; and though I was beyond the range of the ordinary circulating library, I had more than ever come within the influence of those books which circulate round the world, whose sentences were first written on bark, and are now merely copied from time to time on to linen paper.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)