Skywalker: Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail
10 best books like Skywalker: Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail (Bill Walker): Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail, Southbound, Becoming Odyssa: Adventures on the Appalachian Trail, Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail, A Walk for Sunshine: A 2,160 Mile Expedition for Charity on the Appalachian Trail, Just Passin' Thru: A Vintage Store, the Appalachian Trail, and a Cast of Unforgettable Characters, Three Hundred Zeroes: Lessons of the Heart on the Appalachian Trail, The Last Englishman, Hiking Through: Finding Peace and Freedom on the Appalachian Trail, The Trail Provides: A Boy's Memoir of Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail
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...
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...
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...
| Author | Jeff Alt |
| ISBN | 0825308496 |
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...
| Author | Winton Porter |
| ISBN | 0897328493 |
Like a well-crafted stage play, Just Passin' Thru delivers one suspenseful scene after another. But in this historic setting — a store on the Appalachian Trail called Mountain Crossings — the characters who show up are no fictional creations. They are the real-life stars of the author’s new...
| Author | Dennis R. Blanchard |
| ISBN | 1450557465 |
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...
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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...
The Trail Provides: A Boy's Memoir of Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail
| Author | David Smart |
| ISBN | 1723785458 |
There’s a saying used by hikers when extraordinary, serendipitous things happen on the trail—the trail provides. David Smart discovered his own first-hand lessons from the trail. Disillusioned by life after college, David resigned from his corporate marketing job and hiked the Pacific Crest...
