jay
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Post by jay on Dec 18, 2015 15:02:28 GMT -8
This book and its sequel, "The Walk West", were my 2 favorite books on backpacking. I read them years ago when I was a teen and they always stuck with me. Was just wondering if anyone else had read them and what your thoughts were if you had?
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Post by hikerjer on Dec 18, 2015 18:43:21 GMT -8
This has been discussed at length before but it never hurts to go over it again. I enjoyed the first book. But the second, once he got hooked up with his rather bizarre wife, was a real letdown. Too much prophesying and preaching for me. If I want that type of literature, I'll buy that type.
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Post by jay on Dec 18, 2015 19:08:03 GMT -8
must have missed it, didn't realize it was old news.
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Post by rebeccad on Dec 18, 2015 22:24:03 GMT -8
I don't remember the discussion, but followed the book threads somewhat erratically. I read the books way back when, and I think I agree with Jer. I remember being pretty taken with the story of the first book. I don't remember any details now, though, at a 35-year remove.
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Post by echo on Dec 21, 2015 12:54:59 GMT -8
I remember reading the first, and Walk across China. Was that even the same author? I couldn't tell you anymore.
edit to say, I looked it up, same Author, but no Walk in the title, just "Across China"
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Post by burntfoot on Dec 29, 2015 8:19:14 GMT -8
Got interested and read them when I moved to Gunnison, as he and his wife on The Walk West spent a winter in nearby Lake City with Perk Vickers (who passed away 2 years ago). I was VERY disappointed to read in the local paper when he brought his wife back to Lake City several years ago to that place he enjoyed. But, the name in the paper for his wife was NOT Barbara. I haven't re-read his books since then.
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Post by marty on Feb 29, 2016 13:14:13 GMT -8
I read both his books about walking across America. The first one was better but I do remember some specific incidents in the second book.
The creepy voodoo lady in Louisiana, the skeeters in the swampy areas that nearly carried him away, their crossing tricky snowfields in the high Rockies of
CO, and the grand finale when he invited all of those who he befriended along the walk to join him as he dipped a toe into the Pacific to complete his epic
journey.
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