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Walk in the Park : The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko (2024, Hardcover)
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Walk in the Park : The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon, Hardcover by Fedarko, Kevin, ISBN 1501183052, ISBN-13 9781501183058, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The author of The Emerald Mile discusses chronicles his dangerous, life-changing, year-long 750-mile trek along the length of the Grand Canyon, living in the vertical wilderness between the caprock along the rims and the Colorado River. Illustrations.
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PublisherScribner
ISBN-101501183052
ISBN-139781501183058
eBay Product ID (ePID)12063402207
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Book TitleWalk in the Park : the True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Number of Pages512 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / West / Mountain (Az, Co, Id, Mt, NM, Nv, Ut, WY), Adventurers & Explorers, Essays & Travelogues, Special Interest / Hikes & Walks, Parks & Campgrounds, Hiking
Publication Year2024
IllustratorYes
GenreTravel, Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorKevin Fedarko
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2023-056196
Reviews"Part memoir, part travelogue, part extended essay on the profound meanings of wilderness, A Walk in the Park is a paean to one of earth's most spectacular places, and a testament to the irresistible pull this mighty landscape exerts over human beings. Fans of Bill Bryson, Cheryl Strayed, and Edward Abbey will love this rich, funny, and spirited work from the Grand Canyon's most eloquent bard. Fedarko's bushwhacking, boulder-hopping, scree-slipping odyssey makes for delightful reading, and underscores the essential truth that mystics and penitents down through the ages have always known: Put one foot in front of the other, and magical things will follow." -- Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and The Wide Wide Sea "I love this book. It's an insane premise, an implausible journey through an incomprehensible landscape, undertaken by people who are life-threateningly stubborn to a degree that is, itself, insane. What they accomplished is, by contrast, startlingly real." -- S. C. Gwynne, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of the Summer Moon "While fighting for survival on a blistering journey through one of the world's most formidable and spectacular landscapes, not only does Fedarko carry us deep into the Grand Canyon, he pulls us back in time to dwell with the region's native peoples whose legacy and ancestors he refuses to ignore, wrestling with the right and just stewardship of the place. You will laugh, cry, and shake your head in marvel as he and his best buddy, adventure photographer and filmmaker Pete McBride, struggle mightily, and you will be moved by this deeply personal journey and triumph of will." -- Dean King, nationally bestselling author of Skeletons on the Zahara and Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship That Saved Yosemite, " A Walk in the Park is a triumph. Fedarko doesn't describe awe; he induces it, with page-turning action, startling insights, and the kind of verbal grace that makes multipage descriptions of, say, a flock of pelicans feel riveting and new. . . . Readers will be tempted to visit the canyon just to keep the book's spell alive longer--and to feel Fedarko's company in their awe." -- Blair Braverman, The New York Times Book Review "An adventure book about hiking the entirety of the Grand Canyon, sprinkled with a bit of history and anthropology. Superb writing, and thought-provoking on why people choose to persevere." -- Financial Times , Best Books of the 2024, "Part memoir, part travelogue, part extended essay on the profound meanings of wilderness, A Walk in the Park is a paean to one of earth's most spectacular places, and a testament to the irresistible pull this mighty landscape exerts over human beings. Fans of Bill Bryson, Cheryl Strayed, and Ed Abbey will love this rich, funny, and spirited work from the Grand Canyon's most eloquent bard. Fedarko's bushwhacking, boulder-hopping, scree-slipping odyssey makes for delightful reading, and underscores the essential truth that mystics and penitents down through the ages have always known: Put one foot in front of the other, and magical things will follow." -- Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and The Wide Wide Sea, "The book is its own wonder, one of nature and adventure and humanism that earns its place on the same rarefied shelf that is home to Edward Abbey and John McPhee." -- Air Mail "[Fedarko] lovingly recounts, with both awe and surprise, how they were adopted and supported by the long-distance hiking community in achieving their goal. He also vividly portrays the flora, fauna, geography, and wild weather encountered along the way." -- Denver Post, "Wonderful and important . . . Fedarko skillfully weaves multiple stories into his narrative, breaking up their adventure story by revealing its context. He condenses a mountain of experience and research into a compelling portrait of the Grand Canyon. . . . A Walk in the Park is a marvelous adventure story well told, but also a serious treatment of many issues facing Grand Canyon and other national parks . . . a most enjoyable read." -- National Parks Traveler
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Decimal796.510979132
SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the epic adventure tale The Emerald Mile comes the most dramatic and deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mile trek., A New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the 2024 National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor Literature * Shortlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times , Air Mail , Smithsonian Magazine , and Financial Times "A triumph. Fedarko doesn't describe awe; he induces it." -- The New York Times Book Review * "Passionate...memorable...life-affirming." -- The Wall Street Journal From the author of the beloved bestseller The Emerald Mile , a rollicking and poignant account of an epic 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of America's most magnificent national park and the grandest wilderness on earth. Two friends, zero preparation, one dream. A few years after quitting his job to follow an ill-advised dream of becoming a guide on the Colorado River, Kevin Fedarko was approached by his best friend, National Geographic photographer Pete McBride, with a vision as bold as it was harebrained. Together, they would embark on an end-to-end traverse of the Grand Canyon, a journey that, McBride promised, would be "a walk in the park." Against his better judgment, Fedarko agreed, unaware that the small cluster of experts who had completed the crossing billed it as "the toughest hike in the world." The ensuing ordeal, which lasted more than a year, revealed a place that was deeper, richer, and far more complex than anything the two men had imagined--and came within a hair's breadth of killing them both. They struggled to make their way through a vertical labyrinth of thousand-foot cliffs and crumbling ledges where water is measured out by the teaspoon and every step is fraught with peril--and where, even today, there is still no trail along the length of the country's best-known and most iconic park. Along the way, veteran long-distance hikers ushered them into secret pockets, invisible to the millions of tourists gathered on the rim, where only a handful of humans have ever laid eyes. Members of the canyon's eleven Native American tribes brought them face-to-face with layers of history that forced them to reconsider myths at the center of our national parks--and exposed them to the threats of commercial tourism. Even Fedarko's dying father, who had first pointed him toward the canyon more than forty years earlier but had never set foot there himself, opened him to a new way of seeing the landscape. And always, there was the great gorge itself: austere and unforgiving but suffused with magic, drenched in wonder, and redeemed by its own transcendent beauty. A singular portrait of a sublime place, A Walk in the Park is a deeply moving plea for the preservation of America's greatest natural treasure.
LC Classification NumberF788.F37 2024
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