Just Passin' Thru (eBook)

A Vintage Store, the Appalachian Trail, and a Cast of Unforgettable Characters

Winton Porter (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2009
264 Seiten
Menasha Ridge Press (Verlag)
978-0-89732-912-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Like a well-crafted stage play, Just Passin' Thru delivers one suspenseful scene after another. But in this historic setting -- a store on the Appalachian Trail called Mountain Crossings -- the characters who show up are no fictional creations. They are the real-life stars of the author's new life as a backpack-purging, canteen-selling, hostel-running, bandage-taping, lost-child finding, argument-settling, romance-fixing, chili-making man of many faces. Like any good drama, there are the good guys (and gals) and the weirdos, too. Some show up once (and that's enough), and some appear again and again. Some are friends, and some dangerous. But all are united by two things: the author's story-capturing talent, and whatever it is that lures them to attempt (or conquer) a 2,200-mile path that climbs and plummets from Georgia to Maine.

Autor

Ever since starting his lawn-mowing business at age 10, author Winton Porter has found it hard to stay indoors. At 21 he opened his own B. Bumblefoot and Co., producing hiking sticks for retailers throughout the U.S. southeast. And for years he tried the corporate route--selling gear and managing operations at such retailers as REI in Chicago, Salt Lake City, and Atlanta. In 2001, at age 35, he ransacked his 401k and bought the venerable Mountain Crossings store, a hiker's mecca deep in the Georgia woods near the southern end of the Appalachian Trail. It's a blissful match for the lifelong outdoorsman and natural-born storyteller. Now called the Guru of the Appalachian Trail, Winton is famous for his "shakedowns" to help weary hikers lighten their loads. When he's not busy selling boots and shipping hikers' boxes home, he's writing about the zany adventurers that populate the trail and his store. Winton's memory for dialogue, eye for detail, compassion for those in trouble, and gift for humor come together in the 27 chapters that make up his first book.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Sport- / Aktivreisen
• Schlagworte: hike walk trek mountain crossings walasi-yi neel gap hostel memoirs stories tales journal guide chattahoochee national forest woods blairsville georgia ga mountain outdoor wild wilderness backpack history at book through springer mountain mtn vogel • hike walk trek neels gap outpost memoir story tale journal guide guidebook chattahoochee national forest woods gainesville highway blairsville ga north center gear wild wilderness history through thru-hiker springer mtn vogel ccc building recreation • hike walk trek neels gap outpost memoir story tale journal guide guidebook chattahoochee national forest woods gainesville highway blairsville ga north outdoor center gear wild wilderness history at through thru-hiker springer mtn vogel ccc building
• ISBN-10: 0-89732-912-0 / 0897329120
• ISBN-13: 978-0-89732-912-5 / 9780897329125