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:
“Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are bon mots, and not parts of natural discourse; childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature,—being some curiosity or oddity, designedly not in harmony with nature, and purposely framed to excite surprise, as jugglers do by concealing their means.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine- tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)