Are you looking for something in our Travel Books department? If so, you might be interested in these items. Travel Books Skywalker: Highs and Lows on the Pacific Crest Trail              by Bill Walker List Price: $10.95 Price: $8.76 You Save: $2.19 (20%)  Bill Walker is the author of Skywalker–Highs and...

“I’m in a wheelchair in a nursing home with no chance of ever getting out. It is my days on the Appalachian Trail I remember most fondly.” Those are the words of former Appalachian Trail thru-hiker, Colin Fletcher. Yet I suspect he is speaking for many of us. This fact of life is brought home to me when I look at the number of my Facebook friends that so many people–including, very much, myself–have met through...

http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a525038/wild-reese-witherspoon-shares-first-photo-as-cheryl-strayed.html Reese Witherspoon has released the first photo (see link above) of her playing Cheryl Strayed in the upcoming Hollywood movie, ‘Wild’. The long-distance hiking community eagerly awaits this film. Already Cheryl Strayed’s book has had a tangible effect as the number of hikers who applied for thru-hiking permits on the...

 Bill Walker, author of the Skywalker hiking series, is offering a free Amazon Kindle upload today only of his two popular outdoor adventure narratives, Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail, and Skywalker–Highs and Lows on the Pacific Crest Trail. Walker is also the author of ‘The Best Way–El Camino de Santiago’ and ‘Getting High–The Annapurna Circuit in Nepal’. Walker, who is...

The following link is the trail journal for Alexandra ‘Rocket Llama’ Wilson, the last of the four missing thru-hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). The other three were rescued by helicopter. http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?trailname=14842   This journal is most notable for one thing–its utter authenticity. Her ruminations on death are not hysterical, but rather of the look–straight-in-the-eye variety. At...

Bill Walker, author of several popular outdoor adventure narratives, will be having a free Amazon Kindle offering of ‘Skywalker–Highs and Lows on the Pacific Crest Trail’ today, Tuesday 8th, 2013. Not only will it be available to those with Amazon Kindle devices, but also can be uploaded on personal computers, as well as various mobile apps. Bill Walker is the author of ‘Skywalker–Highs and Lows on the Pacific...