Called Again: Love and Triumph on the Appalachian Trail
10 best books like Called Again: Love and Triumph on the Appalachian Trail (Jennifer Pharr Davis): Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail, Southbound, 46 Days: Keeping Up With Jennifer Pharr Davis on the Appalachian Trail, Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail, Walking Home, The Source of All Things: A Memoir, Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water, The Last Englishman, Hiking Through: Finding Peace and Freedom on the Appalachian Trail, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
| Author | Ben Montgomery |
| ISBN | 1613747187 |
Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography
Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother...
| Author | Lucy Letcher |
| ISBN | 0811735303 |
"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
From the book: "We stood for a moment before the venerable signpost marking the summit. Scored...
| Author | Brew Davis |
| ISBN | 0825306787 |
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...
Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail
Carrot Quinn fears that she's become addicted to the internet. The city makes her feel numb, and she's having trouble connecting with others. In a desperate move she breaks away from everything to walk 2,660 miles from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. It will be her first long-distance hike.
In...
"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...
| Author | Tracy Ross |
| ISBN | 1439172978 |
Tracy Ross never knew her biological father, who died after a brain aneurysm when she was still an infant. So when her mother married Donnie, a gregarious man with an all-wheel-drive jeep and a love of hiking, four-year-old Tracy was ecstatic to have a father figure in her life. A loving and devoted step-father,...
| Author | Kathleen Dean Moore |
| ISBN | 0156004615 |
Why is this book not famous? I stumbled across it in a used bookstore, and anyway I am educated now.
"All along the McKenzie River Trail, there must be things we do not see, because they have no names. If we knew a word for the dark spaces between pebbles on the river bottom, if we had a name for the nests...
Alternate cover edition for ASIN B007EDIAY4
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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...
| Author | Paul V. Stutzman |
| ISBN | 0984076050 |
After losing his wife to breast cancer, Paul Stutzman decided to make some big changes. He quit his job of seventeen years and embarked upon a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail, a 2,176-mile stretch of varying terrain spanning fourteen states. During his nearly five-month-long hike, he battled brutal...
Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
| Author | Heather "Anish" Anderson |
| ISBN | 1680512366 |
By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail (AT), Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), and Continental Divide Trail (CDT)—a combined distance of 7,900 miles with a vertical gain of more than one million feet. A few years later, she left her...
| Author | Anne Helen Petersen |
In January 2019, culture writer Anne Helen Petersen set the internet on fire with her viral BuzzFeed essay diagnosing "millennial burnout" - a chronic state of stress and exhaustion that's become a "base temperature" for young people today. Now, she continues this generation-defining conversation...
Gorge: My Journey Up Kilimanjaro at 300 Pounds
| Author | Kara Richardson Whitely |
| ISBN | 1580055591 |
Kara knew she could reach the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro. She had done it once before. That’s why, when she failed in a second attempt, it brought her so low. Struggling with a food addiction and looking for ways to cope with feelings of failure and shame, Kara ballooned to 360 pounds. Deep in her personal...
