On the Beaten Path: An Appalachian Pilgrimage - Softcover

Rubin, Robert

 
9781599214979: On the Beaten Path: An Appalachian Pilgrimage
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1599214970 ISBN 13: 9781599214979
Verlag: G05, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

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How one man's six-month, end-to-end hike of the Appalachian Trail led him back home with a new afterword by the authorLeaving mortgage, wife, and cul-de-sac life behind to walk the Appalachian Trail, Robert Rubin found himself part of a strange culture of pilgrims and dropouts, a world with its own rules and rituals. With eloquence and humor, he recounts his 2,160-mile-long trek--the people he met, the landscapes he passed through, and the spiritual and physical endurance involved. On the Beaten Path is a wise, witty look at one of the few remaining pilgrimages in our disillusioned age.

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Of the "thruhikers" who set out to walk the entire Appalachian Trail, about one in every ten actually makes it. Robert Rubin's chances did not look good. Thirty-eight years old, dispirited, and burned out by a job he'd once loved, he dreamed of leaving mortgage and wife and cul-de-sac life behind for a journey that could take half a year - or perhaps never end. On the 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 ironic disillusioned age.

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Verlag
G05
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1599214970
ISBN 13 
9781599214979
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
256
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV
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