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41) Hiking through: one man's journey to peace and freedom on the Appalachian Trail

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After Paul Stutzman lost his wife to breast cancer, he sensed a tug on his heart-the call to a challenge, the call to pursue a dream. Paul left his stable career, traveled to Georgia, and took his first steps on the Appalachian Trail. What he learned during the next four and a half months changed his life-and will change readers' lives as well. In Hiking Through, readers will join Paul on his remarkable 2,176-mile hike through fourteen states in search...

42) L.L. Bean hiking and backpacking handbook

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McCafferty, Keith

43) be prepared hiking and backpacking

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44) Backpacker winter hiking & camping: managing cold for comfort & safety

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Lanza, Michael L

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Backpacker magazine

45) parents guide to hiking and camping a trailside gu

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46) Unicorn power!

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Tamaki, Mariko

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Lumberjanes (Chapter books) volume 1

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"Welcome to Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady Types. The five scouts of Roanoke cabin--Jo, April, Molly, Mal, and Ripley--love their summers at camp. They get to hang out with their best friends, earn Lumberjane scout badges, annoy their no-nonsense counselor Jen. and go on supernatural adventures. That last one? A pretty normal occurrence at Miss Qiunzella's, where the woods contain endless mysteries. Today...

47) Flight behavior: a novel

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Kingsolver, Barbara

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Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, this novel tells the story of Dellarobia Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to small children on a failing farm, oppressed by poverty, isolation and her husband's antagonistic family, she has mitigated her boredom by surrendering to an obsessive...

48) Watch me disappear: a novel

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Brown, Janelle

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"A beautiful Berkeley mom with a radical past vanishes while hiking, leaving her family to piece together her secrets, in this keenly observed novel for readers of Emma Straub and Maria Semple--from the bestselling author ofAll We Ever Wanted Was Everything"-- "Billie is a beautiful Berkeley mom with a radical past--a teenage runaway from Northern California who took up with a group of environmental activists wanted by the FBI, lived dangerously,...

49) Dragon in the desert

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Two teenage friends hike into the deserts of Mongolia. Their destination: the Hills of Seven Dragons. But they are not alone. A third figure walks through the desert, following their footprints.

50) The other side of lost

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Kirby, Jessi

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Her thousands of followers helped Mari Turner become an internet starlet. But when she breaks down and posts a video confessing she isn't the happy, in-love, inspirational online personality she's pretending to be, it goes viral and she receives major backlash. She makes an impulsive decision to hike the entire John Muir trail, something she was supposed to do with her late cousin, Bri. As Mari tries to navigate the terrain-- with Bri's boots and...

51) Nature Girl

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Kelley, Jane

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Forced to spend the summer with her family in rural Vermont, eleven-year-old Megan, a rebellious, immature urbanite gains self-confidence and maturity as she and her dog survive being lost on the Appalachian Trail.

52) A walk in the woods

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Bill Bryson, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail: 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular, and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, when the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek is his long-lost former friend Katz, a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer....

53) Wild

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After years of reckless behavior, a heroin addiction and the destruction of her marriage, Cheryl Strayed makes a rash decision. Haunted by memories of her mother Bobbi and with absolutely no experience, she sets out to hike more than a thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail all on her own.

54) Walking the Camino: six ways to Santiago

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"Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago, an 84 minute documentary, follows a diverse group of pilgrims, ages 3 to 73, from all over the world as they attempt to cross an entire country on foot with only a backpack, a pair of boots, and an open mind."--Container. "Walking the Camino has been in the making since fall, 2008, ... On April 22nd, 2009, our crew converged upon St. Jean Pied de Port, the traditional starting point of the Camino Francés....

55) Edie

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Following the death of her husband, EDIE (Sheila Hancock) breaks free from years of his control and rebels against her daughter’s wish for her to move into assisted living by embarking on an adventure she and her father had always longed for: a trip to the Scottish Highlands to climb the world famous Mt. Suilven. Along the way, she hires young camping shop owner Jonny (Kevin Guthrie) to be her guide. Despite the generational differences, Jonny encourages...

56) Grandma Gatewood's walk: the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail

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Montgomery, Ben

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A biography of Emma Gatewood that focuses on her efforts to save the Appalachian Trail.

57) Girl in the woods: a memoir

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Matis, Aspen

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"Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis's exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada- a coming of age story, a survival story, and a triumphant story of overcoming emotional devastation. On her second night of college, Aspen was raped by a fellow student. Overprotected by her parents who discouraged her from telling of the attack, Aspen was confused and ashamed. Dealing with a problem that has sadly become all too common on college...

58) Wild by nature: from Siberia to Australia, three years alone in the wilderness on foot

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Marquis, Sarah

59) Without ever reaching the summit: a journey

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Cognetti, Paolo

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"In this exquisitely written journal-turned-journey of self-discovery, international bestselling author Paolo Cognetti examines our universal desire for connection through a voyage in the Himalayas. Why climb a mountain without ever reaching the summit? In 2017, Paolo Cognetti returned to Nepal, not to conquer the mountains but to journey through the high valleys of the Dolpo with a copy of Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard in hand. Drawing on...

60) North: finding my way while running the Appalachian Trail

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Jurek, Scott

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An expert ultrarunner describes how he set out to break the speed record for the Appalachian Trail, a 2,189 mile journey that took an unforeseen physical and emotional toll, but also offered him unexpected rewards.