A Walk Across America

Author : Peter Jenkins
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780060959555

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A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins Pdf

Twenty-five years ago, a disillusioned young man set out on a walk across America. This is the book he wrote about that journey -- a classic account of the reawakening of his faith in himself and his country. "I started out searching for myself and my country," Peter Jenkins writes, "and found both." In this timeless classic, Jenkins describes how disillusionment with society in the 1970s drove him out onto the road on a walk across America. His experiences remain as sharp and telling today as they were twenty-five years ago -- from the timeless secrets of life, learned from a mountain-dwelling hermit, to the stir he caused by staying with a black family in North Carolina, to his hours of intense labor in Southern mills. Many, many miles later, he learned lessons about his country and himself that resonate to this day -- and will inspire a new generation to get out, hit the road and explore.

Author : Peter Jenkins,Barbara Jenkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:704409693

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The Walk West by Peter Jenkins,Barbara Jenkins Pdf

Author : Andrew Forsthoefel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781632867025

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Walking to Listen by Andrew Forsthoefel Pdf

A memoir of one young man's coming of age on a journey across America--told through the stories of the people of all ages, races, and inclinations he meets along the way. Life is fast, and I've found it's easy to confuse the miraculous for the mundane, so I'm slowing down, way down, in order to give my full presence to the extraordinary that infuses each moment and resides in every one of us. At 23, Andrew Forsthoefel headed out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read "Walking to Listen." He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn't know how. So he decided to take a cross-country quest for guidance, one where everyone he met would be his guide. In the year that followed, he faced an Appalachian winter and a Mojave summer. He met beasts inside: fear, loneliness, doubt. But he also encountered incredible kindness from strangers. Thousands shared their stories with him, sometimes confiding their prejudices, too. Often he didn't know how to respond. How to find unity in diversity? How to stay connected, even as fear works to tear us apart? He listened for answers to these questions, and to the existential questions every human must face, and began to find that the answer might be in listening itself. Ultimately, it's the stories of others living all along the roads of America that carry this journey and sing out in a hopeful, heartfelt book about how a life is made, and how our nation defines itself on the most human level.

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780385674546

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A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson Pdf

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.

Author : Peter Jenkins
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0395877377

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Along the Edge of America by Peter Jenkins Pdf

From America's favorite traveler, the sights, sounds, and people of America's Gulf Coast.

Author : Peter Jenkins
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781466866362

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Looking for Alaska by Peter Jenkins Pdf

More than twenty years ago, a disillusioned college graduate named Peter Jenkins set out with his dog Cooper to look for himself and his nation. His memoir of what he found, A Walk Across America, captured the hearts of millions of Americans. Now, Peter is a bit older, married with a family, and his journeys are different than they were. Perhaps he is looking for adventure, perhaps inspiration, perhaps new communities, perhaps unspoiled land. Certainly, he found all of this and more in Alaska, America's last wilderness. Looking for Alaska is Peter's account of eighteen months spent traveling over twenty thousand miles in tiny bush planes, on snow machines and snowshoes, in fishing boats and kayaks, on the Alaska Marine Highway and the Haul Road, searching for what defines Alaska. Hearing the amazing stories of many real Alaskans--from Barrow to Craig, Seward to Deering, and everywhere in between--Peter gets to know this place in the way that only he can. His resulting portrait is a rare and unforgettable depiction of a dangerous and beautiful land and all the people that call it home. He also took his wife and eight-year-old daughter with him, settling into a "home base" in Seward on the Kenai Peninsula, coming and going from there, and hosting the rest of their family for extended visits. The way his family lived, how they made Alaska their home and even participated in Peter's explorations, is as much a part of this story as Peter's own travels. All in all, Jenkins delivers a warm, funny, awe-inspiring, and memorable diary of discovery-both of this place that captures all of our imaginations, and of himself, all over again.

Author : Timir Banerjee
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 160441457X

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Conversation with Ann by Timir Banerjee Pdf

This is a book about spiritual growth that occurred while I walked across America. I met numerous people who demonstrated their kindness and love towards me. The walk allowed me an opportunity to learn to forgive myself and understand my shortcomings through my conversation with Anna, my shadow. Now I am celebrating life while teaching the children of SPAVA the values of perseverance and persistence. Anna taught me to listen and to change position depending on the circumstances, whether it be for atmospheric weather or weather of life. The walk gave me the time to reconcile in my mind all the pent-up feelings that shaped me. Now I know to honor everyone and express my gratitude freely.

Author : Robert Bonora
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798741114445

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Forge? by Robert Bonora Pdf

Join Rob and Anthony, two college graduates on their walk across the United States in the summer of 2010. It is filled with doubt, humor, perseverance, and a hungry curiosity for self-discovery. Their four month journey took them from San Diego, California, to their hometown of Nutley, New Jersey. This is a story of charity, but more importantly, a story of friendship, family, and the kindness of strangers. They battle extreme weather, excrutiating pain, and utter unpreparedness as they navigate their way home. Their ultimate triumph was due to their personal resolves. This is an entertaining book from start to finish with characters and a story we can all get behind.

Author : Susan Fletcher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781439132395

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Walk Across the Sea by Susan Fletcher Pdf

The first time Eliza sees Wah Chung, he is squatting beside some rocks on the pathway to her island. Eliza's island is the one on which the lighthouse -- operated and maintained by her father -- stands, sending its beacon of safety to ships at sea. The pathway to the island is a treacherous one, engulfed by water when the tide is high, passable only when the tide is low and reveals the secret life of the sea on the rocks and in the pools that remain. Although Eliza is careful to avoid Wah Chung as he paints among the rocks (after all, he is a Chinaman), when a "sneaker wave" approaches the passage, it is Wah Chung who warns her and then rescues Eliza's goat, Parthenia, before both are swept away. It is a simple act of kindness, but one that causes Eliza to doubt many things. Are the Celestials, as the Chinese immigrants are called, such a threat to their small town? Are they really heathens, as her father claims? And what should she do when the townspeople conspire to expel these people forcibly? How will Eliza act, in the face of her father's strong beliefs and his duties as the lighthouse keeper, when Wah Chung comes to her for help in return?

Author : Linda Sue Park
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547251271

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A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park Pdf

When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, 11-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan. By a Newbery Medal-winning author.

Author : Corban Addison
Publisher : Silver Oak
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Atlanta (Ga.)
ISBN : 1402792808

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A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison Pdf

Orphaned and homeless after a tsunami decimates their coastal India town, teenage sisters Ahalya and Sita Ghai are abducted and sold to a Mumbai brothel owner before they are helped by an American attorney fighting human trafficking.

Author : Tyler Coulson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Walking
ISBN : 0985611936

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How to Walk Across America by Tyler Coulson Pdf

How to Walk Across America is the survival guide for the crazy, courageous few who want (or need) to chuck it all and walk from ocean to ocean. No nonsense. No marketing. Just lessons from the road, from people who have actually walked across America. This is the ultimate primer on mega-long distance hiking, practical advice to keep feet from failing, sanity from disintegrating, and bank accounts from disappearing, no matter how long the hike. Attorney, adventurer, and author Tyler Coulson walked across America in 2011 with his dog, Mabel. Contributor Nate Damm did it in 2011, and contributors John and Kait Seyal did it in 2012, with three therapy dogs. Coulson shares lessons that you can only learn on the road, from common sense to highway secrets. He writes with candor and humor, stripping away all the marketing and glamour of high-tech, high-dollar hiking. What's left is the ultimate first-level guide to the practice of chucking it all and walking out. It pulls no punches: it will scare you, inspire you, and leave you laughing. Tyler Coulson is also the author of BY MEN OR BY THE EARTH.

Author : Linda Lawrence Hunt
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307425065

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Bold Spirit by Linda Lawrence Hunt Pdf

In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America. Hoping to win the wager and save her family’s farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a revolver, and Clara’s curling iron, set out on foot from Eastern Washington. Their route would pass through 14 states, but they were not allowed to carry more than five dollars each. As they visited Indian reservations, Western boomtowns, remote ranches and local civic leaders, they confronted snowstorms, hunger, thieves and mountain lions with equal aplomb. Their treacherous and inspirational journey to New York challenged contemporary notions of femininity and captured the public imagination. But their trip had such devastating consequences that the Estby women's achievement was blanketed in silence until, nearly a century later, Linda Lawrence Hunt encountered their extraordinary story.

Author : Jim Buckley,Glenda Buckley
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1498450350

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Walking Across America by Jim Buckley,Glenda Buckley Pdf

Author : Richard Paul Evans
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439199909

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The Walk by Richard Paul Evans Pdf

The first book in the inspiring New York Times bestselling series about an executive who loses everything he holds dear and embarks on a walk across America that changes his life forever. What would you do if you lost everything—your job, your home, and the love of your life—all at the same time? When it happens to Seattle ad executive Alan Christoffersen, he’s tempted by his darkest thoughts. Instead, he decides to take a walk. But not any ordinary walk. Taking with him only the barest of essentials, Alan leaves behind all that he’s known and heads for the farthest point on his map: Key West, Florida. The people he encounters along the way, and the lessons they share with him, will save his life—and inspire yours. A life-changing journey, both physical and spiritual, The Walk is the first of an unforgettable bestselling series of books about one man’s search for hope.