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In Beauty May She Walk

Leslie Mass
In Beauty May She Walk Book PDF

Author : Leslie Mass
Publisher : Rock Spring Press Inc.
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780976568605

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In 2000, inspired by her father, Leslie Mass decided she would turn a lifelong fantasy into reality. At the age of 59 she began to train for a grueling journey ? a thru-hike of the 2,000-mile Appalachian Trail. In Beauty May She Walk chronicles Leslie?s struggles and triumphs during her hike. On the trail, Leslie struggles with how to balance the needs of her family and friends while making the trail a priority; how to shed years of social conditioning that dictate how a woman should act; and how to know when to ask for help, while understanding that sometimes, help has to come from within. For the first few weeks, Leslie learns how to pitch a tent in the rain, keep animals out of her food, and lighten the load on her back. As the terrain toughens, she struggles to physically keep up with the trail community she depends on socially to keep going, and realizes the difficulty of maintaining her obligations to family and friends while focusing her efforts on putting one foot in front of the other, every day. And after September 11, 2001, she copes with being seemingly the only hiker on the trails for miles, eventually forcing her to change her definition of ?hiking her own hike.? A suburban college professor, Leslie is just like any other woman you might pass on the grocery aisle. Her story is an inspiring physical and mental journey to reach the goal of a lifetime.

A Walk in the Woods

Bill Bryson
A Walk in the Woods Book PDF

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780385674546

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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.

A Journey North

Adrienne Hall
A Journey North Book PDF

Author : Adrienne Hall
Publisher : Appalachian Mountain Club
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000046421944

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Hiking 2,159 miles from Georgia to Maine was not my idea...I was not a lost youth searching for an identity. I was not retired and looking for a new way to spend my time. I was not sorting through death or divorce. I was not recently fired from a job. The truth is, my boyfriend asked me on a date. So begins the story of one young woman's journey along the legendary Appalachian Trail. What starts as a date turns into the experience of a lifetime as Adrienne Hall faces blinding snowstorms, flooded rivers, and seemingly endless mountaintops. Yet despite the physical and mental hardships, she finds her commitment to her hiking companion and the AT experience growing with every mile. When she emerges from her trip - a million footsteps, countless candy bars, and one engagement proposal later - Adrienne has lived an adventure that few will ever know. Written with warmth, insight, and a keen sense of observation, A Journey North is a personal story about discovering what it means to hike the amazing corridor of wilderness that is the Appalachian Trail. (6 x 9 1/4, 224 pages, case bound)

Grandma Gatewood's Walk

Ben Montgomery
Grandma Gatewood s Walk Book PDF

Author : Ben Montgomery
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781613747216

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Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery Pdf

Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a run-in with gangsters from Harlem, she stood atop Maine's Mount Katahdin. There she sang the first verse of "America, the Beautiful" and proclaimed, "I said I'll do it, and I've done it." Grandma Gatewood, as the reporters called her, became the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail alone, as well as the first person—man or woman—to walk it twice and three times. Gatewood became a hiking celebrity and appeared on TV and in the pages of Sports Illustrated. The public attention she brought to the little-known footpath was unprecedented. Her vocal criticism of the lousy, difficult stretches led to bolstered maintenance, and very likely saved the trail from extinction. Author Ben Montgomery was given unprecedented access to Gatewood's own diaries, trail journals, and correspondence, and interviewed surviving family members and those she met along her hike, all to answer the question so many asked: Why did she do it? The story of Grandma Gatewood will inspire readers of all ages by illustrating the full power of human spirit and determination. Even those who know of Gatewood don't know the full story—a story of triumph from pain, rebellion from brutality, hope from suffering.

Walk in a Relaxed Manner

Joyce Rupp
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Author : Joyce Rupp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1608330729

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Experience the powerful prose and poetry of Joyce Rupp with the beautiful full-color art of Mary Southard.

Fall Walk

Virginia Brimhall Snow
Fall Walk Book PDF

Author : Virginia Brimhall Snow
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781423632610

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"Learn about autumn leaves through a rhyming, activities, and tree trivia"--P. [4] of cover.

Ellie's Long Walk

Pam Flowers
Ellie s Long Walk Book PDF

Author : Pam Flowers
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780882409412

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When Pam met Ellie, she was sure she had found a new friend. But Pam wanted more than just a friend; she wanted a companion to hike the world-famous Appalachian Trail. Does Ellie have what it takes to make this journey? In Ellie’s Long Walk, Pam and Ellie set out to hike the more-than-2,000-mile-long Trail. In this adventure-packed true story, they ford rivers, survive storms, and scramble up rugged cliffs. Near the end of their journey an icy storm almost forces them to quit. Find out how these two friends keep each other going and if Ellie really is ready for the Appalachian Trail.

A Walk for Sunshine

Jeff Alt
A Walk for Sunshine Book PDF

Author : Jeff Alt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Appalachian Trail
ISBN : 0967948231

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Jeff Alt takes you along every step of his 2,160-mile Appalachian Trail adventure filled with humorous, frightening and inspirational stories including, bears, bugs, blisters, skunk bed mates and hilarious food cravings.As Alt walked through freezing temperatures, driving rain and sunny skies, he was constantly buoyed by the knowledge that his walk was dedicated to his brother who has cerebral palsy.Alt

The Walk

Philippe Petit
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Author : Philippe Petit
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781510703308

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Now a major motion picture directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, an artist of the air re-creates his six-year plot to pull off an act of incomparable beauty and imagination. More than a quarter century before September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center was immortalized by an act of unprecedented daring and beauty. In August 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit boldly—and illegally—fixed a rope between the tops of the still-young Twin Towers, a quarter mile off the ground. At daybreak, thousands of spectators gathered to watch in awe and adulation as he traversed the rope a full eight times in the course of an hour. In The Walk, Petit recounts the six years he spent preparing for this achievement, a tour de force of imagination and tenacity. Petit’s achievement made headlines around the world. In this stunning book, Petit tells the dramatic story of this history-making walk, from conception and clandestine planning to the performance and its aftermath. It draws on Petit’s own journals, in which he sketched and scribbled everything from his budgets to his strategies for rigging a high wire between two of the most secure towers in the world. It is a fitting tribute to those lost-but-not-forgotten symbols of human aspiration—the Twin Towers. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Walking

Erling Kagge
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Author : Erling Kagge
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780525564492

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A renowned explorer and acclaimed author shows us that walking is a natural accompaniment to creativity—and among the most radical things we can do. “Simple, profound … compelling … [a book that] packs a surprisingly motivational punch” (GQ). Why do we walk? Where do we walk from? What is our destination? Placing one foot in front of the other and embarking on the journey of discovery are activities intrinsic to our nature. But as universal as walking is, each of us will experience it differently. For renowned explorer Erling Kagge, walking is a natural accompaniment to creativity: the occasion for the unspoken dialogue of thinking. Walking is also the antidote to the speed at which we conduct our lives, to our insistence on rushing, on doing everything in a precipitous manner.

Happily May I Walk

Arlene B. Hirschfelder
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Author : Arlene B. Hirschfelder
Publisher : Atheneum
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Alaska Natives
ISBN : 0684186241

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Explores the everyday life, culture, and preservation of traditions of America's native peoples, the Indians, Inuits, and Aleuts.

Walk with Me

Jairo Buitrago
Walk with Me Book PDF

Author : Jairo Buitrago
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554988587

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A simple, imaginative story depicting the complex emotional reality of a girl whose father no longer lives at home. The girl conjures up an imaginary companion — a lion — who will join her on the long walk home from school. He will help her to pick up her baby brother from daycare and shop at the store (which has cut off the family’s credit), and he’ll keep her company all along the way until she is safely home. He will always come back when she needs him, unlike her father whom she sees only in a photograph — a photograph in which he clearly resembles a lion.

Here is Where I Walk

Leslie Carol Roberts
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Author : Leslie Carol Roberts
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781948908085

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It is in the Presidio of San Francisco, California, that Leslie Carol Roberts walks. The Presidio, America’s only residential national park tucked wholly into an urban setting, is a fading historic forest. Here is where Leslie’s memories of other places, people, and travels emerge. Here is where the author’s home has been for more than a decade, and here is the place she raised her two children as a single mother. In layered stories of her life and travels, Leslie turns her daily walks into revelations of deeper meaning. From Maryland to Iowa to Tasmania, we follow a fierce and keenly observant walker through places of exquisite beauty and complexity. Her daily walks inspire Leslie to accept the invitation of the beckoning trees where she finds herself colliding with the urban coyote, the peculiar banana slug, and the manzanita. She also notes both ridiculous and poignant aspects of human ecosystems in pursuit of what it means to live a life of creativity and creation from scientist-activists battling to save environments to the tragic realities of ordinary life. In this finely crafted eco-memoir, each place provides Leslie with exactly the scaffolding needed to survive, with nature serving as the tonic. Here is Where I Walk provides a vivid answer to how we can find our place, not only in nature but within ourselves and the world we walk.

May I Walk You Home?

Joyce Hutchison,Joyce Rupp
May I Walk You Home Book PDF

Author : Joyce Hutchison,Joyce Rupp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Caregivers
ISBN : 0877936706

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May I Walk You Home? by Joyce Hutchison,Joyce Rupp Pdf

Walking a companion home is an old-fashioned custom, often lost in our modern era. But there was a time when walking someone home was a way of offering protection and guidance. Joyce Hutchison and Joyce Rupp capture the spirit of that personal companionship for those who accompany the dying on their final journey. Whether family members, friends, chaplains, or health care workers, caregivers will find here much inspiration and support for their ministry.

Priestess

Pamela Eakins
Priestess Book PDF

Author : Pamela Eakins
Publisher : Red Wheel
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0877288909

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This autobiographical fiction is set against real historical events. It journeys through time and lifetimes to ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Alexandria, and Jerusalem, in the company of the goddess-women of ancient history, and embraces the freedom of consciousness itself.