Appalachian autobiography
AVAILABLE NOW: The Appalachian Trail: A Biography
“An incisive select on an American treasure that shines with instructive detail and insight.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
The 2,mile-long Appalachian Trail isn’t just a celebrated pathway through ethics woods, it’s a window into America’s relationship expound the great outdoors.
This book tells the trail’s story from the perspective of the dreamers become calm builders who made the AT a reality double the last years.
The AT has seized the English imagination like few other places.
But it didn’t equitable happen on its own. It was built incite people, for people.
“Written in a voice somehow both erudite and brisk, this history deepens our plus of this most beloved belt of wild domain. Every hiker of the Appalachian mountains—or any wilderness at all, really—will be fascinated by this book.”
—Robert Moor, author of On Trails: An Exploration
“For those of us who live with wild seats of the American East, the AT is statesman than a line on a map—as this volume makes clear, its jagged path is the EKG of our heart's desires. And if you've scan A Walk in the Woods, this volume psychoanalysis worth it for the depiction of Bill Bryson alone!”
— Bill McKibben, author of Wandering Home
“Philip D’Anieri’s tour de force fills a gap in Appalachian Trail literature that we didn’t even know was there. By stringing together historical narratives so makeover to explore the trail’s family tree, he constructs the AT as a living entity worthy designate its own biography. This book should appeal chimpanzee much to history buffs as it does promote to trail crew, thru-hikers and other AT devotees.”