Hans Breuer, Austria's only wandering shepherd, is also a Yiddish
folksinger. He walks the Alps, shepherd's stick in hand, singing
lullabies to his 625 sheep. Sometimes he even gives concerts in
historically anti-Semitic towns, showing slides of the flock as he
belts out Yiddish ditties.
When New York-based writer Sam Apple hears about this one-of-a-kind
eccentric, he flies overseas and signs on as a shepherd's
apprentice. For thoroughly urban, slightly neurotic Sam, stumbling
along in borrowed boots and burdened with a lot more baggage than
his backpack, the task is far from a walk in Central Park.
Demonstrating no immediate natural talent for shepherding, he tries
to earn the respect of Breuer's sheep, while keeping a safe
distance from the shepherd's fierce herding dogs.
As this strange and hilarious adventure unfolds, " "the unlikely
duo of Sam and Hans meander through a paradise of woods and high
meadows toward awkward encounters with Austrians of many stripes.
Apple is determined to find out if there are really as many
anti-Semites in Austria as he fears and to understand how Hans, who
grew up fighting the lingering Nazism in Vienna, became a wandering
shepherd. What Apple discovers turns out to be far more fascinating
than he had imagined.
With this odd and wonderful book, Sam Apple joins the august
tradition of Tony Horwitz and Bill Bryson. "Schlepping Through the
Alps "is as funny as it is moving.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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