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The Pacific Crest Trail: Exploring America's Wilderness Trail

(Hardback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Pacific Crest Trail: Exploring America's Wilderness Trail

Contributors:

By (Author) Mark Larabee
By (author) Barney Scout Mann
Foreword by Cheryl Strayed

ISBN:

9780847849765

Publisher:

Rizzoli International Publications

Imprint:

Rizzoli International Publications

Publication Date:

11th October 2016

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Dewey:

796.510973

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

336

Dimensions:

Width 262mm, Height 262mm, Spine 36mm

Weight:

2109g

Description

Designated as one of the first two national scenic trails in 1968, the Pacific Crest Trail is a continuous footpath of more than 2,650 miles from the Mexican border to the Canadian border through California, Oregon, and Washington. Hikers from all over the world are drawn to this trail to experience true American wilderness and to challenge them- selves whether for two miles or two thousand. The only illustrated book officially published with the Pacific Crest Trail Association, The Pacific Crest Trail explores this legendary footpath with more than 250 spectacular contemporary images, unpublished historical photos and documents from the PCTA archives, and even the official trail map folded into an inside pocket. This book is perfect for anyone interested in conservation, outdoor recreation, and for all those who dream of one day becoming thru-hikers themselves.

Reviews

Makes me want to grab my packand pick up this new book!
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist and bestselling author.

The most inspiring, gorgeous and hiking-shoe-tugging book.
Angala Ballard, author ofA Blistered Kind of Love, Barbara Savage Award Winner

"Best Travel Books of 2016. All you ever wanted to know about this famed 2,650-mile route from Mexico to Canada is tucked inside this official trail book, published in conjunction with the Pacific Crest Trail Association. Learn about the trails history through archival photos and documents, and draw out your own route on the included trail map. Fans of Cheryl Strayed's 2012 memoir and #1 New York Times Bestseller, Wild, can delve deeper into that author's experience, tooStrayed herself wrote the foreword.
Smithsonian Magazine

"BEST COFFEE TABLE BOOK OF 2016. The only book published with the Pacific Crest Trail Association (which gets a cut of the proceeds), this tome features more than 300 pages of stories, maps, and, of course, photographs. It weighs more than your packs base weight, but should you ever set down some roots, itd look pretty classy on your coffee table.
Backpacker Magazine

The Pacific Crest Trails history and imaginative power jump from the pages of this new coffee-table book. ...Larabee and Mann's book,The Pacific Crest Trail: Exploring Americas Wilderness Trail will make you want to get out there. It's not just the prose, which is appropriately awe-stricken. It's not just the history, which is surprisingly fascinating. It's the photos. Filling up many of the book's 10"-by-10" pages, they capture the monumentality of the six national parks and 48 congressionally-designated wilderness areas through which the trail winds in California, Oregon and Washington state. Any nature enthusiast will enjoy the story. And also will be forgiven for skipping it and going straight for the photos."
The Oregonian

"This gloriously lush and finely written by Mark Larabee and Barney Scout Mann book heads west and looks at the trail made even more famous by Cheryl Strayed in Wild (she contributes the foreword to this book). The only illustrated book officially published with the Pacific Crest Trail Association (PCTA), THE PACIFIC CREST TRAIL explores this legendary footpath with more than 250 spectacular contemporary images, unpublished historical photos and documents from the PCTA archives, and even the official trail map folded into an inside pocket. This inspired book truly makes you want to get up and out to explore the 48 wilderness areas and six national parks along this majestic trail with half of its 2,650 miles running through congressionally-designated dramatic wilderness."
Travel byEntree

"The Pacific Crest Trail is wily, beautiful and demandingNow, at long last, the PCT gets the comprehensive biography it deserves.The Pacific Crest Trail: Exploring Americas Wilderness Trailis the painstakingly researched and thoughtful written history of the trail, of the men and women who dreamed it up, expanded it, and continue to fight for it. The book even shines a light on the mysterious Clinton C. Clarke, the elusive PCT visionary. But make no mistake the beautiful photographs are not workplace-friendly;the full-color portraits of arroyos, hidden lakes and mountain crags, will tempt you to quit your job, sell off all your belongings and move to the Pacific Crest Trail."
Dan White, author ofCactus Eaters: How I lost my Mind-and Almost Found Myself-On the Pacific Crest Trail

Author Bio

Mark Larabee has been the managing editor for the Pacific Crest Trail Association since 2010. A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, he spent twenty-five years as a newspaper reporter and editor. In 2005, he spent four months researching a 13-part series about the Pacific Crest Trail. Barney Scout Mann is a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in Backpacker, the Oregonian, and the PCT Communicator. He served as chair of the Pacific Crest Trail Association s board of directors from 2012 to 2015. His first hike on the PCT was in 1965, and he thru-hiked the PCT in 2007. Cheryl Strayed is the author of the No. 1 New York Times best-selling memoir Wild.

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