Alone in the Appalachians: A City Girl's Trek from Maine to the Gaspe (Raincoast Journeys)
by Monique Dykstra
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Author: Monique DykstraEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-06-20
ISBN: 1551924773
Number of pages: 124
Publisher: Raincoast Books
Book Reviews of Alone in the Appalachians: A City Girl's Trek from Maine to the Gaspe (Raincoast Journeys)
Book Review: beautiful photos, but skipped part of trail
Summary: 4 Stars
The author took many photographs, which appear in the book and which are worth the price of the book by themselves. One quibble I have is that the author admits to skipping parts of the trail by hitchhiking, canoeing and taking a bus. For example, I looked for a description of the last part of the trail along the southern shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, but the book does not describe this part perhaps because the author skipped it by taking a bus. Most of this trail is road walking, so I do not blame the author. But in the interest of truth in advertising.... As other reviewers have noted, the author adeptly describes the people she met along the way.
Summary of Alone in the Appalachians: A City Girl's Trek from Maine to the Gaspe (Raincoast Journeys)
The legendary Appalachian Trail, stretching from Georgia to Maine, attracts millions of hikers every year. The International AT, opened in 2000, has added 1,073 km from Maine to Quebec. This addition to Raincoast's popular Journeys series is the tale of writer and photographer Monique Dykstra's adventures while hiking the brand new International Appalachian Trail. She's a city girl who thought hiking was "simply a matter of throwing some clothes and a few granola bars into a pack and heading for the hills." Two months, 1,073 km, and countless blisters later, she wasn't so sure. This extremely funny narrative includes Dykstra's descriptions of the characters she meets along the trail as well as 50 of her fascinating photographs.
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