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by Robert Rubin

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with a new afterword by the author

Of the thru-hikers who set out to walk the entire Appalachian Trail, most don't make it. Robert Rubin's chances didn't look good. Thirty-eight years old, dispirited, and burned out by a job he no longer loved, he decided to leave mortgage and wife and cul-de-sac life behind for a journey that could take half a year-or perhaps never end. On the trail's wooded ridges, Rubin found himself part of a strange vagrant culture of pilgrims and dropouts, a world with its own rules and rituals. With eloquence and humor, he recounts his trek-the people he met, the landscapes he passed through, the spiritual and physical endurance involved (despite a diet heavy in Snickers bars and macaroni & cheese, he lost seventy-five pounds along the way). On the Beaten Path is a wise, witty look at one of the few remaining pilgrimages in our disillusioned age.

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How one man's six-month, end-to-end hike of the Appalachian Trail led him back home with a new afterword by the authorLeaving mortgage, wife, and cul-de-sac life behind to walk the Appalachian Trail, Robert Rubin found himself part of a strange culture of pilgrims and dropouts, a world with its own rules and rituals. With eloquence and humor, he recounts his 2,160-mile-long trek--the people he met, the landscapes he passed through, and the spiritual and physical endurance involved. On the Beaten Path is a wise, witty look at one of the few remaining pilgrimages in our disillusioned age.

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  • Title On the Beaten Path: An Appalachian Pilgrimage
  • Author Robert Rubin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Lyons Press, US
  • Publication date 2009-03-01
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781599214979 / 1599214970
  • Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.48 x 0.61 in (22.86 x 16.46 x 1.55 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Appalachians
  • Category Travel - United States
  • Library of Congress subjects Appalachian Trail - Description and travel, Hiking - Appalachian Trail
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.510

About the author

Robert Alden Rubin is a wirter and editor who lives with his wife, Catherine, in Sykesville, Maryland.
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