| The Thousand-Mile Summer | |
| Title Orig: | The Thousand-Mile Summer: in desert and high sierra |
| Author: | Colin Fletcher |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Backpacking |
| Genre: | Non-fiction |
| Publisher: | Howell-North Books |
| Release Date: | 1964 |
The Thousand-Mile Summer by Colin Fletcher is the author's chronicle of his 1958 hike along the entire eastern edge of California. Fletcher writes of traveling on foot along the Colorado River, though Death Valley and the High Sierra. The book was first published in 1964.