Description: Almost Somewhere : Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, Paperback by Roberts, Suzanne, ISBN 1496236920, ISBN-13 9781496236920, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor Literature It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished college, and when her friend suggested they hike California’s John Muir Trail, the adventure sounded like the perfect distraction from a difficult home life and thoughts about the future. But she never imagined that the twenty-eight-day hike would change her life. Part memoir, part nature writing, part travelogue, Almost Somewhere is Roberts’s account of that hike. John Muir wrote of the Sierra Nevada as a “vast range of light,” and that was exactly what Roberts was looking for. But traveling with two girlfriends, one experienced and unflappable and the other inexperienced and bulimic, she quickly discovered that she needed a new frame of reference. Her story of a month in the backcountry—confronting bears, snowy passes, broken equipment, injuries, and strange men—is as much about finding a woman’s way into outdoor experience as it is about the natural world Roberts so eloquently describes. Candid and funny, and finally, wise, Almost Somewhere not only tells the whimsical coming-of-age story of a young woman ill-prepared for a month in the mountains but also reflects a distinctly feminine view of nature. This new edition includes an afterword by the author looking back on the ways both she and the John Muir Trail have changed over the past thirty years, as well as book club and classroom discussion questions and photographs from the trip.
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Book Title: Almost Somewhere : Twenty-Eight Days ON the John Muir Trail
Item Length: 9.8in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 5.9in
Author: Suzanne Roberts
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Features: New Edition
Topic: Personal Memoirs, Hiking
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication Year: 2023
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation
Item Weight: 13.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 318 Pages