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Many an armchair hiker has dreamed of traversing the Appalachian Trail in its entirety. In 1979, David Brill became one of the first of a new generation to complete the Georgia-to-Maine hike. As Far as the Eye Can See chronicles his six-month, 2,100-mile walk, a quest to grow, to breathe, to change, to discover what really mattered to him. This book is for anyone interested in getting beyond the day-to-day slog of the hike to explore the emotional and spiritual dimensions of a long journey on foot.
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David Brill's classic account of his 1979 hike of the Appalachian Trail, first published in 1990, has become a classic, not only because he represented a new generation of thru-hikers at the time, but also because it is less a memoir than a series of essays exploring the emotional and spiritual dimensions of a long journey on foot through the nature of the eastern mountains. This edition includes the original preface and an afterword developed 20 years later as Brill looked back during a reunion hike at a season of fellowship and discovery that changed his life.More and more is written about Appalachian Trail hiking, but this account has long been one of the most treasured (and best written) by those who love great writing about nature and the outdoors and humans' interaction with that and each other there. Brill in 1979 was among the first of a new generation to take up thru-hiking; thousands today seek what he found.
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