Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail Roberts Suzanne
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor LiteratureIt was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished college, and when her friend suggested they hike California's John Muir Trail, the…
Specifikacia Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail Roberts Suzanne
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor LiteratureIt was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished college, and when her friend suggested they hike California's John Muir Trail, the adventure sounded like the perfect distraction from a difficult home life and thoughts about the future. But she never imagined that the twenty-eight-day hike would change her life. Part memoir, part nature writing, part travelogue, Almost Somewhere is Roberts's account of that hike.John Muir wrote of the Sierra Nevada as a "vast range of light," and that was exactly what Roberts was looking for. But traveling with two girlfriends, one experienced and unflappable and the other inexperienced and bulimic, she quickly discovered that she needed a new frame of reference. Her story of a month in the backcountry--confronting bears, snowy passes, broken equipment, injuries, and
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