This book id part memoir, part philosophy, and part sociology, of how handicapped people function today and are treated. the author spends the first third on physical handicaps, and their affects on the person and the how to deal with them. The author then moves to the social handicaps, especially in outdoor activities. Then, the last quarter is more philosophical, on how an individual remains happy under the constraints and interacts in mostly a positive way with the non-handicapped. The recollections of being way out there in nature are pleasant reading and are interspersed throughout, usually introducing a topic. ( )