Grandma Gatewood'S Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman who Saved the Appalachian Trail [Audiobook] download free by Ben Montgomery

Listen audiobook: Grandma Gatewood'S Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman who Saved the Appalachian Trail
Author: Ben Montgomery
Release date: 2016/10/17
Publisher: CHICAGO REVIEW PRESS
Language: English
Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
ISBN: 9781613734995
Rating: 7.5 of 10
Votes: 541
Review by: Trenton Hein
Review rating: 8.81 of 10
Review Date: 2018/9/5
Duration: 3H36M52S in 256 kbps (57.6 MB)
Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-20
You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, WAV, ATRAC, Shorten, WMA (compression RAR, ZIP, TBZ, EML, ARC)
Total pages original book: 288
Includes a PDF summary of 32 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 23M46S (6.4 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, sixty-seven-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. By September 1955 she stood atop Maine's Mount Katahdin, sang 'America, the Beautiful,' and proclaimed, 'I said I'll do it, and I've done it.' Driven by a painful marriage, Grandma Gatewood not only hiked the trail alone, she was the first person-man or woman-to walk it twice and three times. At age seventy-one, she hiked the 2,000-mile Oregon Trail. Gatewood became a hiking celebrity, and appeared on TV with Groucho Marx and Art Linkletter. The public attention she brought to the trail was unprecedented. Her vocal criticism of the lousy, difficult stretches led to bolstered maintenance, and very likely saved the trail from extinction. Author Ben Montgomery interviewed surviving family members and hikers Gatewood met along the trail, unearthed historic newspaper and magazine articles, and was given full access to Gatewood's own diaries, trail journals, and correspondence. Grandma Gatewood's Walk shines a fresh light on one of America's most celebrated hikers.
Other categories, genre or collection: 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, Walking, Hiking, Trekking, Biography: Historical, Political & Military, Biography: General, History Of The Americas, Guidebooks, Sports Books
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Format: Paperback
Approximate value: 20.31 USD
Dimensions: 152x228x6mm
Weight: 428g
Printed by: Not Available
Published in: Chicago, United States