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1) Lost canyon
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four hikers from Los Angeles journey to the Sierra Neveda and discover an untraversed trail which leads them into unexpected territory.
Author
Publisher
Mountaineers Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Despite her success setting a self-supported Fastest Known Time record on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2013, Heather "Anish" Anderson still had such deep-seated insecurities that she became convinced her feat had been a fluke. So two years later she set out again, this time hiking through mud, rocks, and mountain blazes to crush her constant self-doubt and seek the true source of her strength and purpose. The 2,180 miles of the Appalachian Trail, from...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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....
4) Birdbrain
Author
Publisher
Peter Owen
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
English language edition.
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A young Finnish go on the hiking trip of a lifetime. As they attempt increasingly challenging trails, their trek develops a sinister aspect as unsettling incidents occur.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the vast wilderness of the Appalachian Trail, three hikers are searching for answers. Taz Chavis, just released from prison, sees the thru-hike as his path to salvation and a way to distance himself from a toxic relationship. Simone Decker, a young scientist with a dark secret, is desperate to quell her demons. Richard Nelson, a Blackfoot Indian, seeks a final adventure before taking over the family business back home. As they battle hunger, thirst,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In his early thirties Justin Alexander Shetler, quit his job at a tech startup and set out on a global journey: across the United States by motorcycle, then down to South America, and on to the Philippines, Thailand, and Nepal, in search of authentic experiences and meaningful encounters, while also documenting his travels on Instagram. His enigmatic character and magnetic personality gained him a devoted following who lived vicariously through his...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 363 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"These trailblazing women were reclaiming what had historically been considered male domains. The stories of these incredible women and artists are laced together by the wilderness walking in Abbs's own life, beginning with her poet father who raised her in the Welsh countryside as an "experiment," according to the principles of Rousseau. Windswept is an inventive retrospective and an arresting look forward to the way walking brings about a kind of...
10) The stairs
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A frightening tale about a group of hikers hunted by a sinister presence in the woods. Twenty years after the mysterious disappearance of an elven-year-old boy and his grandfather, a group of friends find themselves along the same trail, unaware of a long-forgotten evil lurking just beyond the tree line. What started as a week-long adventure with friends, quickly turns into a terrifying fight for survival as they come face to face with the thing that...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Traveling to an isolated writers' retreat deep in the Adirondacks, Jeremy Logan, an investigator who specializes in unexplained phenomena, discovers a dead hiker whose wounds suggest an unnatural attack before encountering numerous suspects and a woman scientist struggling with the death of her father.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Three young Americans captured by Iranian forces and held in captivity for two years tell their story. In summer 2009, Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, and Sarah Shourd were hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan when they unknowingly crossed into Iran and were captured by a border patrol. Accused of espionage, the three Americans ultimately found themselves in Tehran's infamous Evin Prison, where they discovered that pooling their strength of will and relying on...
13) Fox Crossing
Author
Series
Fox Crossing Maine volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the mountain village of Fox Crossing, Maine, everyone knows the story of The Fox. According to local legend, one of the town's founders crossed paths with a curious-looking fox with a distinctive white ear and paw. Some people say that whoever sees The Fox will be rewarded with good fortune, love, and happiness. Others say it's just a silly folk tale . . . Annie Hatherley doesn't believe The Fox legend. For years, Annie's been selling gear to...
Author
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
x, 150 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Walking on the Wild Side traces the stories of forty-six men and women who, for their own personal reasons, set out to hike America's most well-known, and arguably most social, long-distance hiking trail. Once on the Appalachian Trail, long-distance hikers live mostly in isolation, with their own way of acting, talking, and thinking; their own vocabulary; their own activities and interests; their own conception of what is significant in life; and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her teammate disappears while they are searching for missing hikers on Thanksgiving Day, Search and Rescue expert Gracie Kinkaid calls upon all of her survival skills to keep herself and injured hiker, British movie star Rob Christian, alive. Alone in the mountains, with an early season blizzard moving in, and with an unknown killer lurking somewhere in the dark, even her skills might not be enough to save them.
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Laurelie, a young art student who suffers in the aftermath of a sexual assault, has grown progressively more isolated and fearful. She transfers from her busy city university to a small college in rural Vermont, where she retreats into her vivid imagination, experiencing the world through her art. Most comfortable in the company of the child for whom she babysits, and most at ease in the woods, Laurelie has shunned any connection with her peers....
Author
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
unpaged : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"It took her two tries, but in 1955, sixty-seven-year-old Emma 'Grandma' Gatewood became the first woman to solo hike the entire length of the Appalachian Trail in one through hike. Gatewood has become a legend for those who hike the trail, and in her home state of Ohio, where she helped found the Buckeye Trail"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xviii, 371 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Forsthoefel headed out the back door of his home in Pennsylvania with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read "Walking to Listen." Over the course of a year he faced an Appalachian winter and a Mojave summer. He met beasts inside: fear, loneliness, doubt. But he also encountered incredible kindness from strangers. Ultimately, this the stories of others living all along the roads of America carry this journey...
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