Taking the Long Way Home: Hiking Wilderness Trail in the US and Canada

Here are sixteen accounts of my more interesting adventures over a period of 30+ years on wilderness trails in Canada, Alaska, and many other US states. It's more of me "looking for something" but not being entirely sure what. My earlier book, Walking North, told of hiking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail and of what I discovered there. Taking the Long Way Home continues that quest, resulting in new understandings of life outdoors and in general. Come along and be lost for two days in unforgiving underbrush, for a month in the desert of the Superstition Wilderness, for the fifty most difficult miles of the Appalachian Trail, for several days in Alaska's featureless nowhere, for the brutal gold-miners' trail uphill into Canada, and other adventures either fun, exasperating, or educational.