Grandma Gatewood's Walk
The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
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Grandma Gatewood's Walk
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Czyta:
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Patrick Lawlor
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Autor:
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Ben Montgomery
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 $200. 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, atop Maine's Mount Katahdin, she sang the first verse of "America, the Beautiful" and proclaimed, "I said I'll do it, and I've done it." Grandma Gatewood, as the reporters called her, became the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail alone, as well as the first person - man or woman - to walk it twice and three times. The public attention she brought to the little-known footpath was unprecedented. Her vocal criticism of the lousy, difficult stretches led to bolstered maintenance, and very likely saved the trail from extinction.
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I read and listen to a lot of adventure books and yes, this one is a little different. So if you’re looking for a first person, autobiographical adventure story telling you how to train and what to pack on a long-distance hike, the this isn’t for you.
In fact the very thing that some reviewers have listed as their reasons for not enjoying the book, is the why I loved it. The author puts Grandma Gatewoods adventure into political and historical context of the time, truly making the reader understand how unusual it was what she did and what it meant for the hiking community then and now.
Loved it: a breath of fresh air in adventure literature
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Es geht in diesem Buch um einen der längsten Trails in den USA, den Apalachian Trail. Durch meine dienstliche Tätigkeit komme ich immer wieder in der Nähe vorbei und habe auch schon die ersten zwei Meilen absolviert. Das ist ein kurzer Trail im Amicola NP.
Dieses Buch beschreibt kurzweilig die Arbeit einer Dame am Trail, kurz AT. Wie damals auch lebt der Trail von freiwilligen Helfern, damit die Through Hiker sicher ihren Weg finden.
Ein hörenswertes Buch, wenn man etwas über den Trail lernen möchte.
Das Buch wird angenehm gesprochen, kurzweilig.
Durch Zufall auf dieses Buch gestossen
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Nice read with little insights into the hike
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