Description: Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description 2014 National Outdoor Book Award Winner inHistory / Biography 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 Maines Mount Katahdin, sang "America, the Beautiful," and proclaimed, "I said Ill do it, and Ive 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 Gatewoods own diaries, trail journals, and correspondence. Grandma Gatewoods Walk shines a fresh light on one of Americas most celebrated hikers. Author Biography Ben Montgomery is a staff writer at the Tampa Bay Times and cofounder of the Auburn Chautauqua, a Southern writers collective. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010 and has won many other national writing awards. He lives in Florida. Details ISBN 1613734999 ISBN-13 9781613734995 Title Grandma Gatewood's Walk Author Ben Montgomery Format Paperback Year 2016 Pages 288 Publisher Chicago Review Press GE_Item_ID:97515831; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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Book Title: Grandma Gatewood's Walk : the Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2016
Topic: Women, Environmental Conservation & Protection, History, Hiking, United States / General
Genre: Nature, Travel, Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 14.9 Oz
Author: Ben Montgomery
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
