I guess by using the term 'nuts and bolts', I failed to make my point. No, I wasn't looking for a 'how to hike' kind of book, at all. If you've read any of William Least Heat Moon's adventures or Jon Krakauer's accounts, you know what I was looking for: Good writing about an adventure, with both detail and perspective. I found The Man Who Walked Through Time lacking in all of the above. He might as well have been strolling through Hyde Park.