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Tales from the Big Trails

Author : Martyn Howe
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839810599
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Big Trails written by Martyn Howe and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I am already planning the next adventure. The wanderlust that infected me has no cure.' It all started in Fishguard in the mid-1970s when, aged fifteen, Martyn Howe and a friend set off on the Pembrokeshire Coast Path armed with big rucksacks, borrowed boots, a Primus stove and a pint of paraffin, and a thirst for adventure. After repeating the route almost thirty years later, Martyn was inspired to walk every National Trail in England and Wales, plus the four Long-Distance Routes (now among the Great Trails) in Scotland. His 3,000-mile journey included treks along the South West Coast Path, the Pennine Way, the Cotswold Way and the West Highland Way. He finally achieved his ambition in 2016 when he arrived in Cromer in Norfolk, only to set a new goal of walking the England and Wales Coast Paths and the Scottish National Trail. In Tales from the Big Trails, Martyn vividly describes the diverse landscapes, wildlife, culture and heritage he encounters around the British Isles, and the physical and mental health benefits he derives from walking. He also celebrates the people who enrich his travels, including fellow long-distance hikers, tourists discovering Britain's charm, farmers working the land, and the friendly and eccentric owners of hostels, campsites and B&Bs. And when he is asked 'Why do you do it?', the answer is as simple as placing one foot in front of the other: 'It makes me happy.'

Tales of the Big Bend

Author : Elton Miles
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890963609
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Big Bend written by Elton Miles and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1987-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miles evokes Indian, Mexican and Anglo traditions that converge in this area in this collection of tales. They cover supernatural phenomena such as the Marfa lights and water witching, murders, feuds, and lost treasures.

Tales from the Trail: Stories from the Oldest Hiker Hostel on the Appalachian Trail

Author : Sherry Blackman
Publisher : MindStir Media
ISBN 13 : 9781737628736
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Trail: Stories from the Oldest Hiker Hostel on the Appalachian Trail written by Sherry Blackman and published by MindStir Media. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 2020 pandemic, one thing held true: Scores of people headed out for a day hike on the Appalachian Trail (AT) as if being in the woods, immersed in beauty and mystery, immunized them against an invisible enemy. The AT became a hospital for souls locked up in quarantine, needing to breathe, stretch, and be grounded by the earth beneath their feet. For decades, the AT has been a sanctuary for seekers, the tired and the lost; those hungry for renewal, the broken and the grieving; and those who want to face and answer questions they have lugged around with them in invisible backpacks. Questions like, what is next for me? Is there a God? Should I live or end it all? How can I liberate my life from what weighs it down? How can I forgive God? This book pays tribute to all those who dare such a grueling and soul-satisfying adventure. It tells the tales of those on a pilgrimage through insightful conversations and encounters, exploring and revealing what angels the hikers are wrestling with in the wilderness, angels who call out to name them again. This collection unveils the spirituality of any such journey in sometimes humorous, sometimes heart-wrenching portraits. Tales from the Trail explores the longings within us to lose our life, only to find it.

Go Play Outside!

Author : Nancy Fresco
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602234396
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Go Play Outside! written by Nancy Fresco and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having children doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy every season in the great outdoors—even if you happen to live in the middle of Alaska. Whether you’re biking eighty miles into the heart of Denali National Park, cross-country skiing to a remote cabin, or merely enjoying the mud on the banks of the Chena River in downtown Fairbanks, fun for all ages abounds, with a little preparation and the right mindset. Using a deft mixture of storytelling and practical pointers, this guidebook offers advice and encouragement to families—those who live in Alaska, as well as those in less extreme climates and locales. Organized by the age of the young adventures, from days-old infants to independent teens, each section invites readers to learn from the humorous real-life adventures and misadventures of the author, her husband, and their twin girls. Weaving in the kids’ advice in their own words, this guide covers challenges ranging from unexpected hailstorms to very-much-expected mosquitoes. Tips include everything from how to avoid moose, to how to get out in the rain, to the benefits of setting big kids free to explore. This family’s enthusiastic, joyful, and often hilarious tales offer the impetus and the tools to encourage new parents—or more experienced parents, or anyone who loves kids —to go play outside.

Trails Plowed Under

Author : Charles Marion Russell
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Trails Plowed Under written by Charles Marion Russell and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 1927 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowpunchers, Indians and horses are the heroes and villains of these tales from the early days of Montana and Wyoming.

Wild Rescues

Author : Kevin Grange
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1641602031
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Wild Rescues written by Kevin Grange and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kevin Grange details nearly everything that possibly could go wrong in a national park and yet still manages to make you more excited than ever to hit the trail." —Conor Knighton, New York Times bestselling author of Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park Wild Rescues is a fast-paced, firsthand glimpse into the exciting lives of paramedics who work with the National Park Service: a unique brand of park rangers who respond to medical and traumatic emergencies in some of the most isolated and rugged parts of America. In 2014, Kevin Grange left his job as a paramedic in Los Angeles to work in a response area with 2.2 million acres: Yellowstone National Park. Seeking a break from city life and urban EMS, he wanted to experience pure nature, fulfill his dream of working for the National Park Service, and take a crash-course in wilderness medicine. Grange's epic journey took him to Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Grand Teton National Parks where, among other calls, he battled to save the lives of a heart attack victim at Old Faithful, a hiker who'd fractured his skull below Yosemite Falls, and a snowmobiler who launched into a deep gorge in the shadow of the jagged Tetons. Grange was initially overwhelmed—and out of his element—providing patient care in an extreme environment with limited resources and a two-hour drive to the nearest hospital. But he came to enjoy the challenges and steep learning curve of wilderness medicine. Between calls, Grange reflects upon the democratic ideal of the National Park mission, the beauty of the land, and the many threats facing it. With visitation rising, budgets shrinking, and people loving our parks to death, he realized that—along with the health of his patients—he was also fighting for the life of "America's Best Idea."

The Great Salt Lake Trail

Author : Henry Inman
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Great Salt Lake Trail written by Henry Inman and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1898 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Forgotten Trails

Author : Ron Anglin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Trails written by Ron Anglin and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firsthand accounts, together with a chapter on traditional Plateau Indian culture and an oral history describing 19th century Indian life, render a portrait of the region's trails and travelers during its flamboyant and exciting frontier era.

Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail

Author : Bobbie Ann Mason
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 037576061X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail written by Bobbie Ann Mason and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2002-07-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable book, the author of Shiloh and Other Stories, In Country, and other award-winning books gives us powerful new stories that capture the restless energy of life in contemporary America. The characters here are travelers and seekers, feeling their way toward, or away from the defining moments of their lives. They roam out into the world to England, Alaska, Texas, Saudi Arabia, or ricochet back home to Kentucky, ceaselessly searching, exploring, testing for limits. I felt strange, says Chrissy in With Jazz, as though all my life I had been zigzagging down a wild trail to this particular place. In Charger, a teenage boy races along the interstate, seeking the father who abandoned him years before. In Rolling into Atlanta, a young woman searches for the kind of authenticity she remembers from her rural childhood. In Proper Gypsies, Nancy deals with the shock of being robbed in London. In The Funeral Side, Sandra comes home to try to fulfill her responsibilities to her family, but yearns to escape again to Alaska and the northern lights that haunt her. Writing in the spare, precise, beautifully nuanced language for which she is famous, Bobbie Ann Mason expands her art here in dramatic and illuminating fashion. These fascinating stories bring to life surprising individuals whose journeys shine a bright light on life as it is lived by many Americans today. Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is a beautiful book by one of America's finest writers, a book full of drama, humor, and startling insights into the timeless longings of the human heart.

Haunted Hikes

Author : Andrea Lankford
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
ISBN 13 : 1595809856
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Haunted Hikes written by Andrea Lankford and published by Santa Monica Press. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts! Curses! Hoaxes! Unsolved mysteries! Paranormal events! Take a walk on the creepy side of North America's National Parks! Andrea Lankford, a 12-year veteran ranger with the National Park Service, has written a thoroughly investigated yet often tongue-in-cheek guidebook that takes the reader to the scariest, most mysterious places inside North America's National Parks. Lankford shares such eerie tales as John Brown's haunting of Harper's Ferry, the disembodied legs that have been seen running around inside the Mammoth Cave Visitor Center, and the "wailing woman" who roams the trail behind the Grand Canyon Lodge. Lankford also uncovers paranormal activities park visitors have experienced, such as the chupacabra that roams the swamps inside Big Thicket National Preserve and the teenage bigfoot who rolled a park service campground with toilet paper. She also reports on long-forgotten unsolved murders, such as the savage stabbing of a young woman on Yosemite's trail to Mirror Lake, and the execution style shooting of two General Motors executives at Crater Lake. The witnesses to the supernatural occurrences are highly credible people-rangers, park historians, river guides, and the like-and each tale has factual relevance to the cultural or natural history of the park. Haunted Hikes provides readers with all the information they need: for each hike: a "fright factor rating" is listed along with trailhead access information, detailed trail maps, and hike difficulty levels. Most of the haunted sites included in the book can be reached by the average hiker, some are wheelchair accessible, and others are for intrepid backpackers willing to make multi-day treks into wilderness areas. Intriguing photographs of many sites are included. Haunted Hikes is sure to satisfy readers looking for those spine-tingling moments when you begin to wonder if maybe, just maybe, we are not alone.

Tales from the Trail

Author : Dawson Smith
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 152557728X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Trail written by Dawson Smith and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of non-fiction short stories, Tales from the Trail details Dawson Smith’s many hunting expeditions with hunting partner Bill Cash and others. Filled with close calls and lots of luck, these stories are cast upon the wild backdrop of British Columbia, Canada, pursuing moose, caribou, grizzly bears, sheep, mountain goats, cougars and more. Travelling on foot, on horseback, or even by quad, following animal trails, creeks and rivers, Smith’s work depicts the adventure behind each kill.

Trails & Tales of Yosemite & the Central Sierra

Author : Sharon Giacomazzi
Publisher : Bored Feet Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780939431250
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Trails & Tales of Yosemite & the Central Sierra written by Sharon Giacomazzi and published by Bored Feet Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Winter Tales and Trails

Author : Ron Watters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781877625053
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Winter Tales and Trails written by Ron Watters and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Yonderings

Author : Ben English
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780875656687
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Yonderings written by Ben English and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a time before Terlingua Ranch and chili cook-offs, and you could drive a hundred miles without seeing another vehicle or another person. The year was 1961, and the tides of humanity which ebbed and flowed into the lower reaches of the Big Bend were at their historical nadir. It was a vast, empty land spotted by isolated ranch headquarters, a national park with few visitors, and the many ruins of a past shrouded in legend, lore, and improbable truths. There was no television, no daytime radio, few telephones, and very few people. Ben H. English came to the Big Bend at the age of two, the fifth of six generations of his family to call this enigmatic region home. With his family headquartered at the old Lajitas Trading Post, he worked and lived on ranches and places now little more than forgotten dots on yellowing maps. He attended the one-room schoolhouse at Terlingua, prowled the banks of the Rio Grande, and crisscrossed the surrounding areas time and again on horseback and by foot. Some fifty years later he writes about those many decades ago, as well as the history and legends of this singular land he knows so well. Ben separates fact from fiction and brings the reader into a world that few these days can ever imagine, much less experience. He also writes about the lower Big Bend as it is found now, and what one can still rediscover just over the next rise.

When You Find My Body

Author : D. Dauphinee
Publisher : Down East Books
ISBN 13 : 1608936910
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book When You Find My Body written by D. Dauphinee and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geraldine Largay vanished in July 2013, while hiking the Appalachian Trail in Maine. Her disappearance sparked the largest lost-person search in Maine history, which culminated in her being presumed dead. She was never again seen alive.

Tales from the Trails of a Rock 'n' Roll Bus Driver

Author : Jerry Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Cowboy Buddha Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780985607609
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Trails of a Rock 'n' Roll Bus Driver written by Jerry Fitzpatrick and published by Cowboy Buddha Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining life-in-the-limelight stories and personal life experiences, Jerry Fitzpatrick shares his journeys of driving legendary entertainers and their crews. From rock musicians to women wrestlers, Fitzpatrick has worked with the best (and most notorious) performers. In a conversational tone laced with humor, Fitzpatrick gives his accounts of colorful rock 'n' roll stories, both from on and off the stage. You'll also discover tales of redemption, love, happiness and sadness. Fitzpatrick has been privileged to work with a variety of artists and their crews - from Barbara Mandrell, Queensryche and The Grateful Dead to Courtney Love, Emmylou Harris, Eddie Murphy and many more. Come along for the ride and see for yourself!

Discovering the Appalachian Trail

Author : Joshua Niven
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493060716
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Discovering the Appalachian Trail written by Joshua Niven and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From beginners to thru-hikers, Discovering the Appalachian Trail has something for anyone that wants a connection with the nation’s longest marked footpath at approximately 2,181 miles. Starting at Springer Mountain in Georgia and finishing far to the north in Maine’s Mount Katahdin, the A.T. crosses 14 states, 6 national parks, and 8 national forests. Taking on the A.T. is a pilgrimage because of both its beauty and accessibility. Let Joshua Niven and Amber Adams guide you across the best trails that the Appalachian Trail has to offer. Complete with full-color photography, you’ll also have hikes suited to every ability, mile-by-mile directional cues, sidebars, and maps.