On the Beaten Path: A Appalachian Pilgrimage - Hardcover

Rubin, Robert Alden

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585740233 ISBN 13: 9781585740239

Publisher: The Lyons Press, 2000

Synopsis

Thru-hiking with The Canterbury Tales in mind and wit at the ready, he had quit his job as senior editor at a national trade publishing house and headed out on his own pilgrimage... eventually making it home.

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Review:

"Engaging and enjoyable."--"The Library Journal"

From the Back Cover:

Of the "thruhikers" who set out to walk the entire Appalachian Trail, about one in every ten actually makes it. Robert Rubin's chances did not look good. Thirty-eight years old, dispirited, and burned out by a job he'd once loved, he dreamed of leaving mortgage and wife and cul-de-sac life behind for a journey that could take half a year - or perhaps never end. On the 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 ironic disillusioned age.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Lyons Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1585740233
• ISBN 13: 9781585740239
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 233