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Outside magazine, September 1995


Review: Hardware and Software

Racks That Take to Any Body
How to carry all of your gear, on a Subaru or a Suburban, while feeling no strain
By John Lehrer

Books: Our Just Deserts
Reviews by Miles Harvey

  • Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America, by Charles Bowden
  • Among Whales, by Roger Payne
  • The Presence of Whales: Contemporary Writings on the Whale, edited by Frank Steward
  • Wolf Wars: The Remarkable Inside Story of the Restoration of Wolves to Yellowstone, by Hank Fischer