La signora degli Appalachi. Grandma Gatewood, in solitaria lungo il sentiero più famoso d'America

This is a truly inspiring tale that touched my heart in more ways than one. As I listened to the audiobook, narrated with warmth and reverence, I was transported to the rugged beauty of the Appalachian Trail and felt as though I was walking alongside Emma every step of the way. Her resilience and ten Leggi tutto

Her chest full of crisp air and inspiration, her feet atop a forgettable mountain where the stars make you feel insignificant and important all at once. Emma Gatewood is many things - a wife, a mother, a grandmother and a world-renowned walker. When she was sixty-seven years old, she told

"She stood, finally, her canvas Keds tied tight, on May 3, 1955, atop the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail, the longest continuous footpath in the world, facing the peaks on the blue-black horizon that stretched toward heaven and unfurled before her for days. Facing a mean landscape of ang Leggi tutto

Wow! Simply amazing! True story about Emma Gatewood who chose to walk the entire 2,000+ miles on the Appalachian Trail at age 67. She had 11 children and 23 grandchildren. She carried a homemade knapsack that did NOT include a tent or sleeping bag. She was the first woman to thru-hike the entire tra Leggi tutto

A gentle and nearly perfect tracing of steps of a determined woman who was among the first to simply walk the Appalachian Trail from one end to the other, in the middle of the 20th century, when she was 67 years old. It's also a book about the emotional and physical journey that was her disastrously Leggi tutto