On the Beaten Path
An Appalachian Pilgrimage
Published on 3. March 2009
256 pages
978-1-59921-743-7 (ISBN)
Description
Back in Paperback,
with a new afterword by the author
Of the thru-hikers who set out to walk the entire Appalachian Trail, most don't make it. Robert Rubin's chances didn't look good. Thirty-eight years old, dispirited, and burned out by a job he no longer loved, he decided to leave mortgage and wife and cul-de-sac life behind for a journey that could take half a year?or perhaps never end. On the trail's wooded ridges, Rubin found himself part of a strange vagrant culture of pilgrims and dropouts, a world with its own rules and rituals. With eloquence and humor, he recounts his trek?the people he met, the landscapes he passed through, the spiritual and physical endurance involved (despite a diet heavy in Snickers bars and macaroni & cheese, he lost seventy-five pounds along the way). On the Beaten Path is a wise, witty look at one of the few remaining pilgrimages in our disillusioned age.
with a new afterword by the author
Of the thru-hikers who set out to walk the entire Appalachian Trail, most don't make it. Robert Rubin's chances didn't look good. Thirty-eight years old, dispirited, and burned out by a job he no longer loved, he decided to leave mortgage and wife and cul-de-sac life behind for a journey that could take half a year?or perhaps never end. On the trail's wooded ridges, Rubin found himself part of a strange vagrant culture of pilgrims and dropouts, a world with its own rules and rituals. With eloquence and humor, he recounts his trek?the people he met, the landscapes he passed through, the spiritual and physical endurance involved (despite a diet heavy in Snickers bars and macaroni & cheese, he lost seventy-five pounds along the way). On the Beaten Path is a wise, witty look at one of the few remaining pilgrimages in our disillusioned age.
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03/2009
The Lyons Press
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Person
Robert Alden Rubin is a wirter and editor who lives with his wife, Catherine, in Sykesville, Maryland.
Content
- Front Cover
- Copyright
- TOC
- Prologue: Facing North
- 1: Pilgrims' Way
- 2: Blue Ridges
- 3: Sea Level
- 4: Monadnock
- Epilogue: Facing South
- Back Cover
- Spine
