On the Beaten Path (eBook)

An Appalachian Pilgrimage

Robert Rubin (Autor)

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2009
256 Seiten
Lyons Press (Verlag)
978-1-59921-743-7 (ISBN)

Infos

An eloquent, wise, and witty account of how one man's six-month, end-to-end hike of the Appalachian Trail led him back home.

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Back in Paperback, with a new afterword by the author Of the thru-hikers who set out to walk the entire Appalachian Trail, most don't make it. Robert Rubin's chances didn't look good. Thirty-eight years old, dispirited, and burned out by a job he no longer loved, he decided to leave mortgage and wife and cul-de-sac life behind for a journey that could take half a year-or perhaps never end. On the trail's wooded ridges, Rubin found himself part of a strange vagrant culture of pilgrims and dropouts, a world with its own rules and rituals. With eloquence and humor, he recounts his trek-the people he met, the landscapes he passed through, the spiritual and physical endurance involved (despite a diet heavy in Snickers bars and macaroni & cheese, he lost seventy-five pounds along the way). On the Beaten Path is a wise, witty look at one of the few remaining pilgrimages in our disillusioned age.

Autor

Robert Alden Rubin is a wirter and editor who lives with his wife, Catherine, in Sykesville, Maryland.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.3.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Connecticut • Georgia • Maine • Maryland • Massachusetts • mid-atlantic • New Hampshire • New Jersey • New York • North Carolina • Northeast • Pennsylvania • South • Southeast • Tennessee • Vermont • West Virginia
• ISBN-10: 1-59921-743-0 / 1599217430
• ISBN-13: 978-1-59921-743-7 / 9781599217437