Hikers--
I just published a book about section-hiking the AT, as much a "nature" book as an AT book. Here's the back cover description, if you're interested:
Unique among Appalachian Trail books, Breakfast with Salamanders: Seasons on the Appalachian Trail records an eleven-year adventure hiking the entire Trail by sections, in trips ranging from overnights to weeks at a time. Organized by seasons, it looks back to the great tradition in American nature writing running from Thoreau’s Walden through Leopold’s Sand County Almanac and Abbey’s Desert Solitaire. Deeply (and quietly) informed by a Zen Buddhist sensibility and, in later chapters, interspersed with original poems in haiku form, it also evokes Bashō’s Narrow Road to the Deep North. A book to read in quiet hours or, tucked into a backpack, on the trail.
If you'd like to know more, check out the book's Amazon page, where it's available in paperback ($12.95) and on Kindle ($3.99).
Thanks for reading--Alan / Cascader (screen name) / "Call Me Al" (trail name).
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