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[at-l] 3/27/98 A.T. Bibliography News

Greetings, Hikers!

The Ol' Earthworm added three new items to the Trailplace A.T. 
Bibliography today.  You can see the entries below, or go to:
http://trailplace.com/cgi-bin/htmlscript?category_bibliography.hts
and click on BOOKS & CHAPTERS (see the last two entries), then click 
on PLANNING GUIDES (see the last entry).

1.
Book (Memoirs):  —A 4,000 Mile Backpacking Log of the Appalachian Trail
Author: Ed Kuni
Published by: Kutztown Publishing Co., Kutztown, Pa.  1976, 142 pp.,
	illus. (photographs) 
Cover price: out of print

Notes: Ed Kuni was a retired U.S. postal clerk and an outdoors 
columnist for the Sunday Independent Newspaper of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 
when he became the first person to backpack the entire Appalachian 
Trail twice in successive years. Starting alone, at the age of 58, 
from Springer Mountain on April 2, 1972, he had reached Vermont by 
June 24th when he had to abandon his hike to return home because his 
house had been extensively damaged by Hurricane Agnes. He returned to
Georgia on March 12, 1973 and reached Katahdin on July 12th. At that 
point he hiked back to the place where he had left the trail in 
Vermont the previous year, reaching there on August 16th. At that 
time, he had the unique trail record of never spending a night in a 
home, motel or rooming house, and he logged miles on every day of the
eight months it took him to hike the 4,000 miles.  As a result, his
overall average was 17 miles per day.

2.
Book (Memoirs):  Stepping Stones: A Trek in the Southern Appalachian
	Highlands
Author: Charles B. Rodning, Soren P. Rodning, and Christopher B. 
	Rodning
Published by: Vantage Press, New York, NY  1991, 39 pp., illus. (photo-
	graphs), ISBN 0533090601 (hard cover)
Cover price: out of print

Notes: A slim volume containing a short account of an August 1987 hike 
on the Appalachian Trail from Amicalola Falls State Park to Blood
Mountain, then looping back to the AT via the Duncan Ridge Trail, then 
on the AT back to the Park. The participants were a surgeon/professor 
and his two sons. 


3.
Planning Guide (Historical):  —Cooking, Camping, Carrying on the
	Appalachian Trail: A Manual for Beginners 
Author: Sterling W. Edwards
Published by: Press of William Jarboe, Washington, DC  1939 71 pp. 
Cover price: out of print

Notes: Interesting reading for a view of the time when the ATC head-
quarters was still in Washington, DC, the Trail's southern terminus
was on Mt. Oglethorpe, the entire Trail was covered by only 5 guide-
books, and hikers wore such things as hobnail boots, canvas leggings,
knickerbockers, and woolen union suits. The chapter titles are, "The
Wilderness Walker," "Equipment for Hiking on the Appalachian Trail,"
"Equipment for Women Hikers," "Firemaking," "Food Lists, Menus and
Preparation of Meals...," and "General Suggestions for Travel on the
Appalachian Trail." The Appendix includes equipment information, how to
place items in the backpack, a water-repellent treatment for clothing, 
and a list of USGS quadrangle maps covering the trail (most of them 
cost only 10 cents then!).


'Til next time...  --  Earthworm

Linda L. Patton, Reference Librarian, Strozier Library, Florida State Univ.
      Tallahassee, FL 32306-2047 (850)644-5019 lpatton@mailer.fsu.edu
          "A world without wilderness is a cage." -- David Brower
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