Download or read book Human Powered Poetry from the Appalachian Trail written by Daniel Zube and published by . This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems and color photographs provide readers with the experience of thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail. A wonderful way to relive your own hike, or the perfect gift for a thru-hiking loved one!
Download or read book Appalachian Trail Thru Hike written by Gary Drury and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry is the gateway to new found freedoms and self-discovery. It programs you mind contemplating things a touch differently than you may have before. Much like walking in another man's shoes for a day. Books are not merely for education and entertainment. They are a opening into the authors mind and soul. Weaving into their stories real-life experiences, beliefs, pollical views and other philosophies. When you discover an author, poet or novelist you truly enjoy. It's because you the reader relate to that writer. Poetry is a micro-story conveying its message in the simplest of form. Sometimes poems rhyme sometimes not, prose and 575 haikus often don't. Myriad people claim to loathe poetry. However, poetry is very important in their life. Every song you listen to is a poem that has been placed to music. I'm not trying to push books that is the sellers job. But, the only way to know for sure what you like and don't like is to give writers a try. You may just discover much more in common with them. Next time you read a poem try putting some music to it and see how it reads. Not everyone is going to hike the Appalachian Trail. Not everyone wants to, not everyone is able to. But for those who would like to experience the journey vicariously, walking the Trail in Drury's footsteps as they read his words, the book will be a travel guide. Drury's book FINDING NORTH can take you to the Trail, where you'll share the struggles and the triumphs of seven months that Drury, battered in body and exultant in spirit, will always remember. Published by Gary Drury Publishing(TM)
Download or read book From Maine to Georgia written by James Stillman Hanson and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appalachian Trail; Thru-Hike; Black and White Photography; Poetry; Journal
Download or read book Appalachian Memories written by Ancient Briton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appalachian Memories is an evocative collection of poetry recounting one hiker's experience on the Appalachian Trail. Aged 64, Englishman Clive Mulley fulfilled a long-held ambition to walk the Trail, his trailname was Ancient Briton. From recollections of the camaraderie of the trail and the kindness of strangers met along the way to quiet contemplation of the majesty of the wilderness, this little gem of a book has a poem to capture every mood.
Download or read book A Walk in the Woods written by Bill Bryson and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.
Download or read book Hiking Through written by Paul Stutzman and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With breathtaking descriptions and humorous anecdotes from his 2,176-mile journey along the Appalachian Trail, Paul Stutzman reveals how immersing himself in nature and befriending fellow hikers helped him recover from a devastating loss.
Download or read book The Appalachian Trail written by Philip D'Anieri and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Appalachian Trail is America’s most beloved trek, with millions of hikers setting foot on it every year. Yet few are aware of the fascinating backstory of the dreamers and builders who helped bring it to life over the past century. The conception and building of the Appalachian Trail is a story of unforgettable characters who explored it, defined it, and captured national attention by hiking it. From Grandma Gatewood—a mother of eleven who thru-hiked in canvas sneakers and a drawstring duffle—to Bill Bryson, author of the best-selling A Walk in the Woods, the AT has seized the American imagination like no other hiking path. The 2,000-mile-long hike from Georgia to Maine is not just a trail through the woods, but a set of ideas about nature etched in the forest floor. This character-driven biography of the trail is a must-read not just for ambitious hikers, but for anyone who wonders about our relationship with the great outdoors and dreams of getting away from urban life for a pilgrimage in the wild.
Download or read book Blues and Roots Rue and Bluets written by Jonathan Williams and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-29 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Williams’s poetry has been described as brilliant, sensuous, lyrical, quirky, suave, vital, joyful, sardonic, melodious, passionate, alive, pyrotechnic. This new, much enlarged edition of Blues and Roots displays all of the above. Williams has tramped the Appalachian Trail for decades, botanizing, jotting down specimens of authentic American speech, graffiti, superstitions, and nostrums—always curious, alert, and affectionately attentive. Blues and Roots focuses on the linguistic horizon of Appalachia in lyrics of wonder and light, of wit and comic incongruity, in found poems of the speech of his mountain neighbors. Publishers Weekly said of the earlier edition, “One of the most beautiful and evocative tributes to the Appalachians and its people yet published.” Blues and Roots is a fine celebration; Wiliams is a joyful ringmaster.
Download or read book Border Crossings written by Ian Marshall and published by Hiraeth Press. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The International Appalachian Trail runs north from Mount Katahdin seven hundred miles to the end of the Gaspé Peninsula. Inspired by Basho, Ian Marshall hiked it for six summers, probing the poetics of haiku while exploring a vast and beautiful wilderness little known in the US. Marshall is an engaging trail companion and a superb story teller, with a self deprecating wit and sharp intellect that spice up his observations and ideas. Like Basho, he finds the miraculous in the common and elevates the humble walk into a spiritual practice, sprinkling his narrative with lovely original haiku that seem to have condensed in the moment, like droplets of dew. Backpackers will appreciate his pungent descriptions of life on the trail, and ecocritics will savor his abundant insights on poetry, nature, and culture. This lively book serves up a classic blend of high adventure, literary pilgrimage, and self discovery. It tastes as tart and fresh as wild raspberries."--John Tallmadge, past-president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and author of The Cincinnati Arch: Learning from Nature in the City
Download or read book Path With A Heart written by John Hiker and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On my Appalachian Trail hike, I was invited to a trail magic dinner by a family along the way, the daughter, showed me her art work which I believe captures the journey for many of us. A journey from trauma & pain to finding our heart again & becoming resilient. My intent is to share this with others and hope all who can, find peace in the challenges of their life journey. I hope you find the illustrations as compelling as I still do.
Download or read book Grandma Gatewood Hikes the Appalachian Trail written by Jennifer Thermes and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emma Gatewood’s life was far from easy. In rural Ohio, she managed a household of 11 kids alongside a less-than-supportive husband. One day, at age 67, she decided to go for a nice long walk . . . and ended up completing the Appalachian Trail. With just the clothes on her back and a pair of thin canvas sneakers on her feet, Grandma Gatewood hiked up ridges and down ravines. She braved angry storms and witnessed breathtaking sunrises. When things got particularly tough, she relied on the kindness of strangers or sheer luck to get her through the night. When the newspapers got wind of her amazing adventure, the whole country cheered her on to the end of her trek, which came just a few months after she set out. A story of true grit and girl power at any age, Grandma Gatewood proves that no peak is insurmountable.
Download or read book Trail Tales written by Dominick Mucci and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-12-14 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief collection of thoughts and writings from hiking the Appalachian Trail. The day to day life of a long distance hiker.
Download or read book As Far as the Eye Can See written by David Brill and published by Rutledge Hill Press. This book was released on 1996-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After five months and 2,100 miles, the author emerged from the trail as a man at home in the wilds and at peace with himself. The Book Reader calls this work Evocatively written gems of observation, full of observation, full of native wisdom.
Download or read book The Appalachian Trail Reader written by David Emblidge and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of trail diaries, poems, and essays by well-known writers such as Henry David Thoreau, James Dickey, Aldo Leopold, James MacGregor Burns, Richard Wilbur, and many not so well-known people.
Download or read book I Joined a Trail Crew on the Appalachian Trail written by James Young and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of poems related to my time as a volunteer with a trail crew working on the Appalachian Trail
Download or read book Blues Roots Rue Bluets written by Jonathan Williams and published by [Durham, N.C.] : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems of Blues and Roots / Rue and Bluets make up an unofficial oral history in verse of the Southern Appalachian folk often vilified and dismissed as hillbillies. Most of these poems are composed in a pungent dialect, as if Huck Finn had settled in the Blue Ridge or Smoky Mountains and continued to view the world's propensity for stupidity and meanness with the humorist's clear-eyed and trenchant truth-telling.
Download or read book Tales from the Trail Stories from the Oldest Hiker Hostel on the Appalachian Trail written by Sherry Blackman and published by MindStir Media. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 2020 pandemic, one thing held true: Scores of people headed out for a day hike on the Appalachian Trail (AT) as if being in the woods, immersed in beauty and mystery, immunized them against an invisible enemy. The AT became a hospital for souls locked up in quarantine, needing to breathe, stretch, and be grounded by the earth beneath their feet. For decades, the AT has been a sanctuary for seekers, the tired and the lost; those hungry for renewal, the broken and the grieving; and those who want to face and answer questions they have lugged around with them in invisible backpacks. Questions like, what is next for me? Is there a God? Should I live or end it all? How can I liberate my life from what weighs it down? How can I forgive God? This book pays tribute to all those who dare such a grueling and soul-satisfying adventure. It tells the tales of those on a pilgrimage through insightful conversations and encounters, exploring and revealing what angels the hikers are wrestling with in the wilderness, angels who call out to name them again. This collection unveils the spirituality of any such journey in sometimes humorous, sometimes heart-wrenching portraits. Tales from the Trail explores the longings within us to lose our life, only to find it.
