These were the books on Russ's reading table when he left the cabin on Thursday morning, Aug 7, 2008:
- Conversational Portuguese
- Common Usage Dictionary, Portuguese/English
- French Phrase Book
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
- Loeb Classical Library Latin/English side-by-side editions of:
- Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
- Seneca, Naturales Quaestiones, vol 2 of 10
- Virgil: Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid I-VI
- Cicero, Philippics
- Cassell's New Latin Dictionary
- Sierra Nevada Natural History, by Storer and Usinger
- Falcon Guide to Sierra Nevada Wildflowers, by Karen Wiese
- Binder, hand labeled "Penrose Tilings", contatining reprints of academic articles on the topic
- Regular Polytopes, H. S. M. Coxeter (This was Russell's "bible", always to hand)
- Mathematical Recreations and Essays, by Ball and Coxeter
- Introduction to Geometry, 2nd Edition, by H. S. M. Coxeter
- The Works of Archimedes
- Carpe Jugulum (a Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett)
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