DuellingB's...I share your admiration of George MacD Fraser's writing. I loved the books he wrote about being in the army (though the Flashman series finally wore out their welcome)...

I'm currently reading Breaking Clean, a memoir by an escapee from Wyoming ranching, very well written, and a couple of older books I picked up at the last library sale: The Snow Leopard, by Peter Matthiessen (his At Play in the Fields of the Lord is one of my fav. books, tho the movie they made frm it was sickeningly bad), and Coming into the Country, a book about Alaska, by John McPhee. I love library book sales!