Are you looking for something in our Sports & Outdoors books department? If so, you might be interested in these items. Sports & Outdoors books Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian trail Bill Walker, Jerry Gramckow, Audra George Price: $4.95 Skywalker: Highs and Lows on the...

  Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail and Three Hundred Zeros are two of the more popular Appalachian Trail narratives. And they exhibit a fundamental truism of hiking and camping books. Both books are at turns, deadly serious and irreverent. In Skywalker, Bill Walker has become obsessed at age 44 with thru-hiking the 2,180 mile Appalachian Trail without ever having even spent a single night outdoors. What follows is a...

Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail is an, a narrative of 7-foot tall Bill Walker’s thru-hike attempt of the 2,178 mile Appalachian Trail. Like many popular hiking and camping books, it is, at turns, deadly serious and...

Bill Walker, author of the Skywalker hiking series on the Appalachian Trail and Pacific Crest Trail, reports that American audiences are exhibiting great interest in the most popular hiking trail in Asia, the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal. This horseshoe-shaped circuit that runs through the Himalayas in Nepal ultimately reaches 17, 768 feet and requires approximately three weeks to cover. “The beauty of the Annapurna Circuit is that it...

Bill Walker’s popular narrative, Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail, is now an Amazon #1 ranked book for sports, outdoors, and hiking non-fiction book. This outdoor narrative is now in its sixth year and exemplifies a by now well-established phenomenon. “Outdoor adventures and wilderness tend to run in the American DNA,” Walker writes in his book. Better yet, the Appalachian Trail, which attracts...

Bill Walker, author of the ‘Skywalker’ hiking series, will be offering a free Amazon Kindle upload of his two popular adventure narratives, Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail and Skywalker–Highs and Lows on the Pacific Crest Trail, this Friday and Saturday, March 7th and 8th. They will also be available for free upload on various electronic devices, IPODs, etc. Walker is also the author of outdoor...