Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail by Roberts, Suzanne
Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail by Roberts, Suzanne

Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor Literature It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just...
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Author: Suzanne Roberts
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Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail by Roberts, Suzanne

Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

$256.81
Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail by Roberts, Suzanne

Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

$256.81
Author: Suzanne Roberts
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Suzanne Roberts
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 10/01/2023
Pages: 318
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.43w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9781496236920

About the Author
Suzanne Roberts teaches English at Lake Tahoe Community College and for the low-residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada College. Named "The Next Great Travel Writer" by National Geographic Traveler magazine, Roberts is the author of four collections of poetry, and has published work in numerous journals and anthologies.
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