Back in Paperback, with a new afterword by the author Of the thru-hikers who set out to walk the entire Appalachian Trail, most don\'t make it.
About author(s): Robert Alden Rubin is a wirter and editor who lives with his wife, Catherine, in Sykesville, Maryland..
On the Beaten Path is a wise, witty look at one of the few remaining pilgrimages in our disillusioned age.
With eloquence and humor, he recounts his trek-the people he met, the landscapes he passed through, the spiritual and physical endurance involved (despite a diet heavy in Snickers bars and macaroni & cheese, he lost seventy-five pounds along the way).
On the trail\'s wooded ridges, Rubin found himself part of a strange vagrant culture of pilgrims and dropouts, a world with its own rules and rituals.
Thirty-eight years old, dispirited, and burned out by a job he no longer loved, he decided to leave mortgage and wife and cul-de-sac life behind for a journey that could take half a year-or perhaps never end.
Robert Rubin \'s chances didn\'t look good.
Back in Paperback, with a new afterword by the author Of the thru-hikers who set out to walk the entire Appalachian Trail, most don\'t make it
