On the Beaten Path

An Appalachian Pilgrimage

By: Robert Alden Rubin

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Paperback | 4 June 2009 | Edition Number 2

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Of the thru-hikers who set out to walk the entire Appalachian Trail, most don’t make it. Robert Rubin’s chances didn’t look good. Thirty-eight years old, dispirited, and burned out by a job he no longer loved, he decided to leave mortgage and wife and cul-de-sac life behind for a journey that could take half a year—or perhaps never end. On the trail’s wooded ridges, Rubin found himself part of a strange vagrant culture of pilgrims and dropouts, a world with its own rules and rituals. With eloquence and humor, he recounts his trek—the people he met, the landscapes he passed through, the spiritual and physical endurance involved (despite a diet heavy in Snickers bars and macaroni & cheese, he lost seventy-five pounds along the way). On the Beaten Path is a wise, witty look at one of the few remaining pilgrimages in our disillusioned age.

Industry Reviews

"A beautiful story."-Esquire "A book for the rest of us, who will never climb Annapurna but still need to do something to test our own physical and mental limits."-National Geographic Adventure "Delightful. . . . [Rubin] writes humorously and honestly."-Seattle Times "Engaging and enjoyable."-Library Journal "Rubin opens his heart to hikers, people in the nearby towns and the reader, inviting everyone along to share both hardship and discovery. ... [He] tells a human tale of the search for meaning and the understandable need to reduce a complicated life to a simple passage from white blaze to white blaze, from town to town."-News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina

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