The Longest Walk

Che libro simpatico! L'autore, inglese, non ha una sola rotella al posto suo (ma guarda! :-D): 7 anni a piedi attraverso le americhe con pochi soldi in tasca, dormendo qui e là (spesso là!), mangiando, letteralmente, pane e cipolla, litigando con la burocrazia... e nel frattempo trovando il modo di......more

I once had a dream in which I was contemplating something that in the dream I called a "Pacific Spine Through-hike," which started at Cape Horn, wound through the Andes, through the mountains of Central America, connected up with the Pacific Crest Trail, continued through the mountains of British Co......more

I loved this book! What George Meegan accomplished is truly remarkable. As of the writing of his book, he held several official world records; I don't know if any of them have since been broken. I enjoyed reading his descriptions of the land he walked and the people he encountered. As in Tania Aebi'......more

Out of print, but get a copy if you can find it... Might be a bit dated (I read it back in the late 80's) but I remember it as a somewhat bizarre, but fascinating look at an incredibly anal/meticulous Englishman who decides to walk from the very tip of Tierra del Fuego in Argentina to one of the nor......more