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:
“Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the preface, not concluded in the appendix. Even Virgil’s poetry serves a very different use to me today from what it did to his contemporaries. It has often an acquired and accidental value merely, proving that man is still man in the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The books may say that nine-month-olds crawl, say their first words, and are afraid of strangers. Your exuberantly concrete and special nine-month-old hasn’t read them. She may be walking already, not saying a word and smiling gleefully at every stranger she sees. . . . You can support her best by helping her learn what she’s trying to learn, not what the books say a typical child ought to be learning.”
—Amy Laura Dombro (20th century)