Between a Rock and a White Blaze: Searching for Significance on the Appalachian Trail

10 best books like Between a Rock and a White Blaze: Searching for Significance on the Appalachian Trail (Julie Urbanski): Stumbling Thru: Hike Your Own Hike, The Wrong Shade of Yellow, Called Again: Love and Triumph on the Appalachian Trail, 46 Days: Keeping Up With Jennifer Pharr Davis on the Appalachian Trail, Walking with Spring: The Story That Inspired Thousands of Appalachian Trail Thru-Hikers, Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, A Walk for Sunshine: A 2,160 Mile Expedition for Charity on the Appalachian Trail, Walking Home, In Beauty May She Walk: Hiking the Appalachian Trail at 60, Three Hundred Zeroes: Lessons of the Heart on the Appalachian Trail

AuthorA. Digger Stolz
ISBN0615763583
The Appalachian Trail as a metaphor for life.

In Stumbling Thru, the Appalachian Trail is alive. We walk with Walter, our reluctant hiker who only knows that he's standing before 2,000+ miles of trail at the start of his uncertain journey. Characters that crisscross his path early on may or...
The Wrong Shade of Yellow
AuthorMargaret Eleanor Leigh
I was middle aged and homeless, soon to be penniless, and really and truly no different from that bag lady sitting on the bench over there. I couldn’t jack it in and go home, because I didn’t have a home to go to anymore. The bicycle and the tent were now home. Wherever I found myself on any given night was...
AuthorJennifer Pharr Davis
ISBN0825306930
In 2011, Jennifer Pharr Davis became the overall record holder on the Appalachian Trail. By hiking 2,181 miles in 46 days -- an average of 47 miles per day -- she became the first female to ever set that mark. But this is not a book about records or numbers; this is a book about endurance and faith, and most...
AuthorBrew Davis
ISBN0825306787
46 Days chronicles the trials, successes, joys, and frustrations of Jennifer Pharr Davis's record-winning Appalachian Trail thru-hike through the eyes of her husband, Brew Davis. Brew led her pit crew, the group of generous, loving hikers who supported Jen along the way, providing company along...
AuthorEarl V. Shaffer
ISBN0917953843
In April 1948, the 11-year-old Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia was pretty much a wreck: Volunteer maintainers who hadn't been called to combat couldn't get rationed gasoline to get out there to keep it clear. In April 1948, so, pretty much, was Earl Shaffer, self-dubbed The Crazy One. He had...
AuthorSuzanne Roberts
ISBN0803240120
Day One, and already she was lying in her journal. It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished college, and when her friend suggested they hike California’s John Muir Trail, the adventure sounded like the perfect distraction from a difficult home life and thoughts about the future. But she never...
AuthorJeff Alt
ISBN0825308496
As seen on ESPN and Hallmark Channel: Jeff Alt takes you along every step of his 2,160-mile Appalachian Trail adventure filled with humorous, frightening, and inspirational stories including bears, bugs, blisters, captivating characters, skunk bed mates, and hilarious food cravings. As Alt walked...
AuthorLucy Letcher
"Rarely will you find books that explore the human emotions of a long-distance trek so honestly and clearly." --Roger Williamson, Campmor, Inc. "Highly recommended." --trailsbib.blogspot.com

After hiking the AT from Maine to Georgia, Lucy and Susan Letcher decided that the best way to...
AuthorLeslie Mass
ISBN0976568608
In 2000, inspired by her father, Leslie Mass decided she would turn a lifelong fantasy into reality. At the age of 59, she began to train for a grueling journey, a thru-hike of the 2,000-mile Appalachian Trail. 'In Beauty May She Walk' chronicles Leslie's struggles and triumphs during her hike. On the...
AuthorDennis R. Blanchard
ISBN1450557465
Dennis Blanchard's promise to his brother haunted him for over forty years. Finally, when there were no more excuses, he set out on the Appalachian Trail to fulfill that promise. He learned that walking in the wilderness can reconnect one with a Norman Rockwell America that at times seems long lost and...
AuthorKevin Runolfson
ISBN0786447672
This upbeat nitty-gritty memoir, based on the author's 2001 trail journal, chronicles one man's hike the whole length of the Appalachian Trail, beginning just north of Atlanta and finishing six months later in Maine. The journey included adventures with a faithful and eccentric dog, a new romance,...
AuthorGeorge Spearing
ISBN1411656180
This story of a Pacific Crest Trail thru-hike is both the same and different as the dozens of other accounts I’ve read.

It is the same because the trail is the same, the difficulties are the same, and the challenges of writing about a 5-month walking adventure are the same. After all, walking...
Long-Distance Hiking: Lessons from the Appalachian Trail
AuthorRoland Mueser
ISBN0070444587
totally disagree with what i wrote before - I don't know if I was wanting more of a story/narrative, but overall this is a good resource for its topic, including brief anecdotes along with a compilation of individual hikers' experiences with various types of equipment, preparation, and with the Trail...
AuthorBill Walker
The Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail (PCT)is the perfect place for an average person to do something extraordinary. Bill Walker ("Skywalker"), who stands 6'11", might seem like anything but average. Yet in a brutally honest tone, he lays to bare all his considerable weaknesses and fears. Among...
The Last Englishman
AuthorKeith Foskett
Alternate cover edition for ASIN B007EDIAY4
For previous cover edition see here


A real-life adventurer. A gruelling pan-American trek. Will one Englishman dare to face his fears? Short-listed for Outdoor Book of the Year by The Great Outdoors magazine. Born traveller Keith...
AuthorJennifer A. Hanson
ISBN1568251203
5 States, 148 Hiking Days, 25 Supply Points, 130 Maps
br>A how-to adventure for both armchair and real-life hikers. Foreword by Steve Dudley, Executive Director of the Continental Divide Trail Alliance.

An avid outsoorswoman, West Point graduate and former Captain in the U.S. Army,...
The Exotic and the Mundane
AuthorJoyce Dickens
In 2011, Joyce & Daryle were approaching 40 and had been married for almost ten years. From the day they met, they’d been talking about “travelling more”, but in ten years they hadn’t advanced very far toward that dream and it had become more of a nagging dissatisfaction than an inspiring...
AuthorCameron Powell
A terrifying diagnosis. An unbreakable bond. And one unforgettable journey.

”An epic love letter . . . Stunning, unique, unlike anything I've read before.” -- Julia Scheeres, Jesus Land: A Memoir

Cameron Powell has always struggled with goodbyes. On the day his marriage ends,...
AuthorChris Pountney
“...the most amazing trip around the world you will ever read about...”

When Chris Pountney pedals away from the Eiffel Tower he is doing more than just going for a bike ride. It is the start of an ambitious attempt to become perhaps the first person ever to circumnavigate the planet using...
No Place Like Home, Thank God: A 22,000 Mile Bicycle Ride Around Europe
AuthorSteven Primrose-Smith
Amazon UK Bestseller Number 1 in Cycling and Top 3 in Travel and in Sport

"There are many books about cycle touring but few are as entertaining, informative and engaging as this one...The result is a funny and informative account of his travels to some of the Continent's well-known and more undiscovered...
Best Foot Forward
AuthorSusie Kelly
ISBN0553814907
Why would an unfit, 50-something Englishwoman embark on a solo walk across France from La Rochelle on the west coast to Lake Geneva over the Swiss border? And why would a total stranger from San Antonio, Texas come to live in her crumbling French farmhouse to house-sit for a multitude of boisterous and...
The Nepali Flat
AuthorGordon Alexander
An amicable Aussie ambulates around in Nepal. Nearly a perfect alliteration, but for Nepal. Should have gone with something about altitude, which of course is a huge thing about Nepal. The climate alone is enough to qualify such treks as winter sports, a definite no on in my book. But then again this is...
A Kilo of String
AuthorRob Johnson
“Fabulously funny - a real must for lovers of all things Greek.”

After living in Greece for thirteen years, writer and reluctant olive farmer Rob Johnson has got used to most of the things that he and his partner Penny found so bizarre at the beginning. Most, but not all.

A Kilo of...
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