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Harvey Manning (July 16, 1925 in Ballard, Seattle, Washington - November 12, 2006 in Bellevue, Washington) was a noted author of hiking guides and climbing textbooks, and a tireless hiking advocate. Manning lived on Cougar Mountain, within the city limits of Bellevue, Washington, calling his home the "200 meter hut". His book ''Walking the Beach to Bellingham'' is an autobiography and manifesto fleshing out his journal of a hike along the shore of Puget Sound over a two-year span. From 1954 to 1956, Harvey Manning managed Seattle radio station KISW.〔Harvey Manning, "Letter to the Editor," ''Seattle Weekly'', 21 September 1994.〕 Harvey Manning died November 12, 2006, in Bellevue. == Books == Manning is most famous for being the editorial committee chair for the first edition of ''Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills'', a 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 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harvey Manning」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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