Walking with Spring
by Earl V. Shaffer
List Price:
Our Price: $5.39
You Save: $3.56 (40%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $3.35 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Earl V. ShafferEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-06-01
ISBN: 0917953843
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Appalachian Trail Conservancy
Summary of Walking with Spring
In April 1948, the 11-year-old Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia was pretty much a wreck: Volunteer maintainers who hadn't been called to combat couldn't get rationed gasoline to get out there to keep it clear. In April 1948, so, pretty much, was Earl Shaffer, self-dubbed "The Crazy One." He had come home from war in the Pacific where he had lost the dearest friend of his life. He needed to walk it off, and he did with the most primitive of gear. In four months, he walked with the merging spring from Georgia to Maine, bushwhacking to find the route more often than not-becoming the first to report a complete, single-journey trek on this footpath of more than 2,000 miles. More than 7,000 have since followed in his footsteps. These reflections on and from his first of three thru-hikes are often lyrical, full of history and local legend and his own quiet insights on life in the woods in a much different era all around.Historical Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Historical Books
Alexander Hamiltonby Ron Chernow
Penguin Audio; Published: 2004-04-26; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $134.40
America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction (Penguin Classics)by John Steinbeck
Penguin Classics; Published: 2003-04-29; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.00
Price in other shops:
Sailing Alone around the World (Penguin Classics)by Joshua Slocum
Penguin Classics; Published: 1999-06-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.95
Price in other shops:
The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sistersby Charlotte Mosley
Harper; Published: 2007-11-06; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $12.00
Price in other shops:
Profiles in Courage (slipcased edition): Decisive Moments in the Lives of Celebrated Americansby John F. Kennedy
Harper; Published: 2006-10-17; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $8.99
Price in other shops:
Lost Years: A Memoir 1945 - 1951by Christopher Isherwood
HarperCollins; Published: 2000-09-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $17.99
Price in other shops:
Thomas Jefferson: A Lifeby Willard Sterne Randall
Harper Perennial; Published: 1994-06-18; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.10
Price in other shops:
The Professor and the Madmanby Simon Winchester
Harper; Published: 1998-08-26; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.50
Price in other shops:
Patton: A Genius for Warby Carlo D'Este, este, Carlo D'
Harpercollins; Published: 1995-11; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $49.94
Stonewall Jacksonby James Robertson
Macmillan Pub.; Published: 1997-02-18; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $48.00
Price in other shops:
Similar Books and other products
On the Beaten Path: An Appalachian Pilgrimageby Robert Alden Rubin
Lyons Press; Published: 2009-03-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.22
Price in other shops:
Walking the Appalachian Trailby Larry Luxenberg
Luxenberg; Stackpole Books; Published: 1994-10-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.98
Price in other shops:
Barefoot Sisters Walking Home (Adventures on the Appalachian Trail)by Lucy Letcher, Susan Letcher
Stackpole Books; Published: 2010-01-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $12.45
Price in other shops:
How to Hike the A.T.: The Nitty-Gritty Details of a Long-Distance Trekby Michelle Ray
Stackpole Books; Stackpole Books; Published: 2009-01-31; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.74
Price in other shops:
AWOL on the Appalachian Trailby David Miller
AmazonEncore; Published: 2010-10-18; Paperback; Book
Best price: $23.26
As Far as the Eye Can Seeby David Brill
Ap Trail Conservancy; Appalachian Trail Conference; Published: 2004-12-10; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.84
Price in other shops:
Three Hundred Zeroes: Lessons of the heart on the Appalachian Trail.by Dennis R. Blanchard
CreateSpace; Published: 2010-02-20; Paperback; Book
Best price: $14.49
Price in other shops:
Becoming Odyssa: Adventures on the Appalachian Trailby Jennifer Pharr Davis
Beaufort Books; Published: 2011-07-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.15
Price in other shops:
Just Passin' Thru: A Vintage Store, the Appalachian Trail, and a Cast of Unforgettable Charactersby Winton Porter
Winton Porter; Menasha Ridge Press; Published: 2009-12-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.21
Price in other shops:
AWOL on the Appalachian Trailby David Miller
Mariner Books; Published: 2011-11-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.14
Price in other shops: