Blogs in October 2024

Heartwood 30th October 2024

‘An unforgettable treat’ Janice Hallett ‘An absolute must-read’ Elin Hildebrand In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone...

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Going to Maine: All the Ways to Fall on the Appalachian Trail 21st August 2024

From comedian Sally Chaffin Brooks comes a memoir about the thing she can’t seem to shut up about— her life changing thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. 25-year-old Sally has no reason to upend her comfortable, conventional life to spend...

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Blue Hole Back Home 24th June 2018

In a time when it thought cross burnings and men in white hoods were a thing of the past, a small town confronts a kind of hate it thought had long since died out…. Shelby Lenoir Maynard, nicknamed Turtle,...

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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail 14th April 2017

The Appalachian Trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America–majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson...

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Chuckaboo: an Appalachian Trail novel 11th June 2016

Nobody expects a runaway to hide on the Appalachian Trail. Don Gallagher, 16, joins a springtime migration of backpackers. They trek northbound in Georgia. Hikers nickname him Chuckaboo. Pent up frustration has led him to the mountains. He’s boycotting...

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