Colin Fletcher, considered the father of modern backpacking for his lyrical and practical writings on hiking, including “The Complete Walker” and “The Man Who Walked Through Time,” died ...

Colin Fletcher was 85. In 1968, Mr. Fletcher first published "The Complete Walker," a guide to hiking with a pack on your back. The book became a kind of manifesto for going back to nature.

The Welshman who wrote them, the intrepid and blessedly individualistic Colin Fletcher, died earlier this month, at 85. I can't recall which I read first -- The Man Who Walked Through Time ...