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Walking on the Wild Side - Long-Distance Hiking on the Appalachian Trail (Hardcover)
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Walking on the Wild Side - Long-Distance Hiking on the Appalachian Trail (Hardcover)
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The most famous long-distance hiking trail in North America, the
2,181-mile Appalachian Trail - the longest hiking-only footpath in
the world - runs along the Appalachian mountain range from Georgia
to Maine. Every year about 2,000 individuals attempt to
""thru-hike"" the entire trail, a feat equivalent to hiking Mount
Everest sixteen times. In Walking on the Wild Side, sociologist
Kristi M. Fondren traces the stories of forty-six men and women
who, for their own personal reasons, set out to conquer America's
most well known, and arguably most social, long-distance hiking
trail. In this fascinating in-depth study, Fondren shows how, once
out on the trail, this unique subculture of hikers lives mostly in
isolation, with their own way of acting, talking, and thinking;
their own vocabulary; their own activities and interests; and their
own conception of what is significant in life. They tend to be
self-disciplined, have an unwavering trust in complete strangers,
embrace a life of poverty, and reject modern-day institutions. The
volume illuminates the intense social intimacy and bonding that
forms among long-distance hikers as they collectively construct a
long-distance hiker identity. Fondren describes how long-distance
hikers develop a trail persona, underscoring how important a sense
of place can be to our identity, and to our sense of who we are.
Indeed, the author adds a new dimension to our understanding of the
nature of identity in general. Anyone who has hiked - or has ever
dreamed of hiking - the Appalachian Trail will find this volume
fascinating. Walking on the Wild Side captures a community for whom
the trail is a sacred place, a place to which they have become
attached, socially, emotionally, and spiritually.
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