Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
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In her late sixties, Emma Gatewood quietly left her Ohio home with little more than a change of clothes and the determination to walk the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. Her extraordinary journey—marked by physical hardship, unpredictable danger, and encounters with strangers along the way—transformed a private act of endurance into a national story. Drawing on Gatewood’s diaries, journals, correspondence, and interviews with those who knew her, this account explores the resilience, independence, and inner resolve behind her remarkable accomplishments. It also reveals how her blunt criticism and unexpected celebrity helped bring attention, care, and new life to the Appalachian Trail.
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paperback
Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Published Jan 1, 2014
277 pages
ISBN: 9781613747186
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First Published
2014
Language
eng
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