Human-Powered Poetry from the Appalachian Trail

Human-Powered Poetry from the Appalachian Trail PDF Author: Daniel Zube
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937721770
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Book Description
These poems and color photographs provide readers with the experience of thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail. A wonderful way to relive your own hike, or the perfect gift for a thru-hiking loved one!

Human-Powered Poetry from the Appalachian Trail

Human-Powered Poetry from the Appalachian Trail PDF Author: Daniel Zube
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937721770
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Book Description
These poems and color photographs provide readers with the experience of thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail. A wonderful way to relive your own hike, or the perfect gift for a thru-hiking loved one!

Appalachian Trail Thru-Hike

Appalachian Trail Thru-Hike PDF Author: Gary Drury
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781721670628
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Book Description
Poetry is the gateway to new found freedoms and self-discovery. It programs you mind contemplating things a touch differently than you may have before. Much like walking in another man's shoes for a day. Books are not merely for education and entertainment. They are a opening into the authors mind and soul. Weaving into their stories real-life experiences, beliefs, pollical views and other philosophies. When you discover an author, poet or novelist you truly enjoy. It's because you the reader relate to that writer. Poetry is a micro-story conveying its message in the simplest of form. Sometimes poems rhyme sometimes not, prose and 575 haikus often don't. Myriad people claim to loathe poetry. However, poetry is very important in their life. Every song you listen to is a poem that has been placed to music. I'm not trying to push books that is the sellers job. But, the only way to know for sure what you like and don't like is to give writers a try. You may just discover much more in common with them. Next time you read a poem try putting some music to it and see how it reads. Not everyone is going to hike the Appalachian Trail. Not everyone wants to, not everyone is able to. But for those who would like to experience the journey vicariously, walking the Trail in Drury's footsteps as they read his words, the book will be a travel guide. Drury's book FINDING NORTH can take you to the Trail, where you'll share the struggles and the triumphs of seven months that Drury, battered in body and exultant in spirit, will always remember. Published by Gary Drury Publishing(TM)

From Maine to Georgia

From Maine to Georgia PDF Author: James Stillman Hanson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984784806
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Book Description
Appalachian Trail; Thru-Hike; Black and White Photography; Poetry; Journal

Appalachian Memories

Appalachian Memories PDF Author: Ancient Briton
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539833475
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Book Description
Appalachian Memories is an evocative collection of poetry recounting one hiker's experience on the Appalachian Trail. Aged 64, Englishman Clive Mulley fulfilled a long-held ambition to walk the Trail, his trailname was Ancient Briton. From recollections of the camaraderie of the trail and the kindness of strangers met along the way to quiet contemplation of the majesty of the wilderness, this little gem of a book has a poem to capture every mood.

Blues and Roots/Rue and Bluets

Blues and Roots/Rue and Bluets PDF Author: Jonathan Williams
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822382954
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Book Description
Jonathan Williams’s poetry has been described as brilliant, sensuous, lyrical, quirky, suave, vital, joyful, sardonic, melodious, passionate, alive, pyrotechnic. This new, much enlarged edition of Blues and Roots displays all of the above. Williams has tramped the Appalachian Trail for decades, botanizing, jotting down specimens of authentic American speech, graffiti, superstitions, and nostrums—always curious, alert, and affectionately attentive. Blues and Roots focuses on the linguistic horizon of Appalachia in lyrics of wonder and light, of wit and comic incongruity, in found poems of the speech of his mountain neighbors. Publishers Weekly said of the earlier edition, “One of the most beautiful and evocative tributes to the Appalachians and its people yet published.” Blues and Roots is a fine celebration; Wiliams is a joyful ringmaster.

Border Crossings

Border Crossings PDF Author: Ian Marshall
Publisher: Hiraeth Press
ISBN: 0983585253
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Book Description
"The International Appalachian Trail runs north from Mount Katahdin seven hundred miles to the end of the Gaspé Peninsula. Inspired by Basho, Ian Marshall hiked it for six summers, probing the poetics of haiku while exploring a vast and beautiful wilderness little known in the US. Marshall is an engaging trail companion and a superb story teller, with a self deprecating wit and sharp intellect that spice up his observations and ideas. Like Basho, he finds the miraculous in the common and elevates the humble walk into a spiritual practice, sprinkling his narrative with lovely original haiku that seem to have condensed in the moment, like droplets of dew. Backpackers will appreciate his pungent descriptions of life on the trail, and ecocritics will savor his abundant insights on poetry, nature, and culture. This lively book serves up a classic blend of high adventure, literary pilgrimage, and self discovery. It tastes as tart and fresh as wild raspberries."--John Tallmadge, past-president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and author of The Cincinnati Arch: Learning from Nature in the City

Path With A Heart

Path With A Heart PDF Author: John Hiker
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Book Description
On my Appalachian Trail hike, I was invited to a trail magic dinner by a family along the way, the daughter, showed me her art work which I believe captures the journey for many of us. A journey from trauma & pain to finding our heart again & becoming resilient. My intent is to share this with others and hope all who can, find peace in the challenges of their life journey. I hope you find the illustrations as compelling as I still do.

A Walk in the Woods

A Walk in the Woods PDF Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385674546
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Book Description
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.

Trail Tales

Trail Tales PDF Author: Dominick Mucci
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781675615867
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Book Description
A brief collection of thoughts and writings from hiking the Appalachian Trail. The day to day life of a long distance hiker.

The Appalachian Trail

The Appalachian Trail PDF Author: Philip D'Anieri
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0358169569
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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Book Description
The Appalachian Trail is America’s most beloved trek, with millions of hikers setting foot on it every year. Yet few are aware of the fascinating backstory of the dreamers and builders who helped bring it to life over the past century. The conception and building of the Appalachian Trail is a story of unforgettable characters who explored it, defined it, and captured national attention by hiking it. From Grandma Gatewood—a mother of eleven who thru-hiked in canvas sneakers and a drawstring duffle—to Bill Bryson, author of the best-selling A Walk in the Woods, the AT has seized the American imagination like no other hiking path. The 2,000-mile-long hike from Georgia to Maine is not just a trail through the woods, but a set of ideas about nature etched in the forest floor. This character-driven biography of the trail is a must-read not just for ambitious hikers, but for anyone who wonders about our relationship with the great outdoors and dreams of getting away from urban life for a pilgrimage in the wild.