Re: [at-l] present recommendations

For AT related books, I highly recommend Larry Luxembourg's book, "Walking 
the Appalachian Trail."

Also, though not trail related, certainly an amazing story to anyone 
interested in walking long distances, "The Long Walk" by Slavomir Rawicz.  A 
story of a Polish Cavalry officer in WWII who is captured by the russians, 
eventually sent to Siberia, and his escape across Siberia, the Gobi, and the 
Himalayas.

Mara
Stitches, GAME99


>From: Valerie Henderson <vhender@austin.ibm.com>
>To: at-l@edina.hack.net
>Subject: [at-l] present recommendations
>Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:15:29 -0600 (CST)
>
>Hi all,
>
>I've been on this list in various forms for several years mostly lurking
>and enjoying the nonsense that goes on.  Figured I'd pop out of hiding
>and reintroduce myself.  I'm Val.  There.  Now I'm introduced.  I'm
>presently marooned in Texas, so I consider this list my hiking "fix"
>until I can get back to dear ole' NC.
>
>But on to the real reason I was writing this.  My father has always loved
>the outdoors and hiking.  Dad was the one that used to pile the family
>into the car and make trips to places like GSMNP or the western NC
>mountains.  He always had an unstated ambition to hike the AT, but he
>always put it off.  Now, he's got a myriad of health related problems
>(diabetes, high blood pressure, heart problems...) and probably never
>will get a chance to do more than extended weekend trips.  This year for
>Christmas he put in a request for "trail books".  I think he's looking
>for narrative type books so he can live vicariously through the
>adventures of others.
>
>I figured I'd ask for help from the list before I moseyed on over to
>Amazon.com and started ordering.  Just please, please, please don't
>suggest Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods.  So, other than that one, what
>are y'all's favorite AT books?
>
>Later,
>-val
>
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