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The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind―and Almost Found Myself―on the Pacific Crest Trail (P.S.)
Dan White
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Description for The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind―and Almost Found Myself―on the Pacific Crest Trail (P.S.)
Paperback. Tells the story of "one and a half step" Warren Rogers, co-founder of the Pacific Crest Trail. Rogers overcame polio and risked ruin during the Great Depression to chart the trail from beginning to end. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 302.
When Dan and his girlfriend set out to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, his parents wondered how two people who had never shared an apartment could survive in a four-by-six foot tent in the desert. Not to mention the fact that the trail stretches from Mexico to Canada, through boiling desert and snowcapped mountain passes. Despite the warnings of their loved ones, and even some naysaying strangers, Dan and Melissa set out into the wilderness. They are dubbed "The Lois and Clark Expedition" by their long-limbed, loping guru "The Gingerbread Man" after covering the requisite number of miles to be ... Read more
When Dan and his girlfriend set out to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, his parents wondered how two people who had never shared an apartment could survive in a four-by-six foot tent in the desert. Not to mention the fact that the trail stretches from Mexico to Canada, through boiling desert and snowcapped mountain passes. Despite the warnings of their loved ones, and even some naysaying strangers, Dan and Melissa set out into the wilderness. They are dubbed "The Lois and Clark Expedition" by their long-limbed, loping guru "The Gingerbread Man" after covering the requisite number of miles to be ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harper Perennial United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780061376931
SKU
V9780061376931
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About Dan White
Dan White is a journalist and author whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Backpacker magazine. He received his MFA from Columbia University, and he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Reviews for The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind―and Almost Found Myself―on the Pacific Crest Trail (P.S.)
"It is a funny, frequently harrowing, and altogether mesmerizing memoir about just how wrong a backpacking expedition can go...'The Cactus Eaters' is far more than a Sierra Club-approved romp. It's gorp for the soul, a fascinating and surprisingly moving testament to the call of the wild."
Steve Almond, Boston Globe "Drawing on diaries he kept at the time, White ... Read more
Steve Almond, Boston Globe "Drawing on diaries he kept at the time, White ... Read more