Hiking the Continental Divide Trail: One Woman's Journey

9 best books like Hiking the Continental Divide Trail: One Woman's Journey (Jennifer A. Hanson): Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail, Southbound, Becoming Odyssa: Adventures on the Appalachian Trail, Skywalker: Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail, The Last Englishman, Hiking Through: Finding Peace and Freedom on the Appalachian Trail, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home, The Road Home, The Man with No Borders

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...

Southbound

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...

Becoming Odyssa: Adventures on the Appalachian Trail

Author	Jennifer Pharr Davis
ISBN	0825306493

After graduating from college, Jennifer isn't sure what she wants to do with her life. She is drawn to the Appalachian Trail, a 2175-mile footpath that stretches from Georgia to Maine. Though her friends and family think she's crazy, she sets out alone to hike the trail, hoping it will give her time to...

Skywalker: Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail

Author	Bill Walker
ISBN	1934144266

Why would a middle-aged businessman who had never even spent the night outdoors, attempt to hike the entire Appalachian Trail? Bill Walker, a former commodities trader in Chicago and London, and an avid walker, had developed a virtual obsession to hike this historic 2,175 mile footpath in one hiking...

The Last Englishman

Author

Keith 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...

Hiking Through: Finding Peace and Freedom on the Appalachian Trail

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...

The Road Home

Author	Richard Paul Evans
ISBN	1501111825

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans, the dramatic conclusion in the riveting Broken Road trilogy—a powerful redemption story about finding happiness on a pilgrimage across iconic Route 66.

Chicago celebrity and pitchman Charles James is supposed to be dead....

The Man with No Borders

Author

Richard C. Morais

A father comes to terms with his mortality and secrets in a heartrending novel of family and forgiveness from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hundred-Foot Journey.

It is a time of reckoning for José María Álvarez, an aristocratic Spanish banker living in a Swiss village with...