On the Beaten Path: An Appalachian Pilgrimage [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Rubin, Robert Alden

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ISBN 10: 1585743976 ISBN 13: 9781585743971

Casa editrice: Lyons Pr, 2001

Riassunto

The author, an overweight burned-out journalist, records his physical and spiritual journey as he travels the two thousand-mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine--a six month pilgrimage that, ultimately, renews his life.

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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. (6 x 9, 256 pages, maps)

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Book by Rubin Robert Alden

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Lyons Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1585743976
• ISBN 13: 9781585743971
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256