Many hikers on the Appalachian Trail take books as companions,
in spite of the extra weight in their packs, but Ian Marshall
carries the habit to new literary, ecological, and spiritual
heights. In the more than twenty years he's been hiking the trail,
Marshall, known on the AT as Evergreen, has practiced what he likes
to call "an ecology of reading," exploring America's past, its
landscape and national experience, through literature inspired by
places in the Appalachian chain: "a literary heritage," he writes,
"of interest to scholars and hikers alike, both seekers of a
sort."
As he walks the trail from Georgia to Maine, Marshall brings
together his own stories, heard and experienced along the trail,
with the stories of those who, famous and otherwise, are part of
the literary geography of each region--William Bartram, Annie
Dillard, Thomas Jefferson, Whitman, Melville, Frost, Hawthorne, and
Thoreau. Like notes left behind for other thru-hikers, their
writings, seen through Marshall's eyes, plot a fresh "story line"
of America's literary and ecological history. As he passes through
the Great Smoky Mountains, the Blue Ridge, the Delaware Water Gap,
Greylock, the Greens and the Whites, to Ktaadn, Marshall takes us
on a vision quest into our national character, from Native American
myths through colonial America's economic and theological
preoccupations, the aesthetic of Manifest Destiny, to our
contemporary ecological awareness. This is book talk taken out of
the classroom and onto the trail.
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