<p class=ql-align-justify><em>Spare Change for the Crossing A Last Hike In</em> and <em>A Last Look Back</em> compose a trilogy of books recollective in several senses and thematically intertwined which Peter Weltner wrote in his eightieth and eighty-first years.&nbsp;He regards them together as his final book a kind of culmination of a lifetime of thought and experience.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p>