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A Walk Across America

2001-09-18 History
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Release : 2001-09-18
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 55X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Walk Across America by : Peter Jenkins

Download or read book A Walk Across America written by Peter Jenkins. This book was released on 2001-09-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five years ago, a disillusioned young man set out on a walk across America. This is the book he wrote about that journey -- a classic account of the reawakening of his faith in himself and his country. "I started out searching for myself and my country," Peter Jenkins writes, "and found both." In this timeless classic, Jenkins describes how disillusionment with society in the 1970s drove him out onto the road on a walk across America. His experiences remain as sharp and telling today as they were twenty-five years ago -- from the timeless secrets of life, learned from a mountain-dwelling hermit, to the stir he caused by staying with a black family in North Carolina, to his hours of intense labor in Southern mills. Many, many miles later, he learned lessons about his country and himself that resonate to this day -- and will inspire a new generation to get out, hit the road and explore.

Along the Edge of America

1997 Nature
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Release : 1997
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 371/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Along the Edge of America by : Peter Jenkins

Download or read book Along the Edge of America written by Peter Jenkins. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From America's favorite traveler, the sights, sounds, and people of America's Gulf Coast.

The Walk West

1985 United States
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Release : 1985
Genre : United States
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Book Synopsis The Walk West by : Peter Jenkins

Download or read book The Walk West written by Peter Jenkins. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Walking to Listen

2017-03-07 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2017-03-07
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 028/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Walking to Listen by : Andrew Forsthoefel

Download or read book Walking to Listen written by Andrew Forsthoefel. This book was released on 2017-03-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of one young man's coming of age on a journey across America--told through the stories of the people of all ages, races, and inclinations he meets along the way. Life is fast, and I've found it's easy to confuse the miraculous for the mundane, so I'm slowing down, way down, in order to give my full presence to the extraordinary that infuses each moment and resides in every one of us. At 23, Andrew Forsthoefel headed out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read "Walking to Listen." He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn't know how. So he decided to take a cross-country quest for guidance, one where everyone he met would be his guide. In the year that followed, he faced an Appalachian winter and a Mojave summer. He met beasts inside: fear, loneliness, doubt. But he also encountered incredible kindness from strangers. Thousands shared their stories with him, sometimes confiding their prejudices, too. Often he didn't know how to respond. How to find unity in diversity? How to stay connected, even as fear works to tear us apart? He listened for answers to these questions, and to the existential questions every human must face, and began to find that the answer might be in listening itself. Ultimately, it's the stories of others living all along the roads of America that carry this journey and sing out in a hopeful, heartfelt book about how a life is made, and how our nation defines itself on the most human level.

Looking for Alaska

2014-03-18 Travel
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Release : 2014-03-18
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 365/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Looking for Alaska by : Peter Jenkins

Download or read book Looking for Alaska written by Peter Jenkins. This book was released on 2014-03-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than twenty years ago, a disillusioned college graduate named Peter Jenkins set out with his dog Cooper to look for himself and his nation. His memoir of what he found, A Walk Across America, captured the hearts of millions of Americans. Now, Peter is a bit older, married with a family, and his journeys are different than they were. Perhaps he is looking for adventure, perhaps inspiration, perhaps new communities, perhaps unspoiled land. Certainly, he found all of this and more in Alaska, America's last wilderness. Looking for Alaska is Peter's account of eighteen months spent traveling over twenty thousand miles in tiny bush planes, on snow machines and snowshoes, in fishing boats and kayaks, on the Alaska Marine Highway and the Haul Road, searching for what defines Alaska. Hearing the amazing stories of many real Alaskans--from Barrow to Craig, Seward to Deering, and everywhere in between--Peter gets to know this place in the way that only he can. His resulting portrait is a rare and unforgettable depiction of a dangerous and beautiful land and all the people that call it home. He also took his wife and eight-year-old daughter with him, settling into a "home base" in Seward on the Kenai Peninsula, coming and going from there, and hosting the rest of their family for extended visits. The way his family lived, how they made Alaska their home and even participated in Peter's explorations, is as much a part of this story as Peter's own travels. All in all, Jenkins delivers a warm, funny, awe-inspiring, and memorable diary of discovery-both of this place that captures all of our imaginations, and of himself, all over again.

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