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A Walk in the Park
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A singular portrait of a sublime place
Approached by his best friend, National Geographic photographer Pete McBride, to join him on an end-to-end traverse of the Grand Canyon, Kevin Fedarko reluctantly agreed to what McBride promised would be “a walk in the park.” The ensuing year-plus ordeal revealed a place that was far more complex than anything the two men had imagined—and came within a hair’s breadth of killing them both.
Veteran hikers ushered them into secret pockets and members of the canyon’s eleven Native American tribes brought them face-to-face with layers of history that forced them to reconsider myths about our national parks. Always, there was the gorge itself: austere and unforgiving but suffused with magic, drenched in wonder, and redeemed by its own transcendent beauty.
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“I love this book. It’s an insane premise, an implausible journey through an incomprehensible landscape, undertaken by people who are life-threateningly stubborn to a degree that is, itself, insane. What they accomplished is, by contrast, startlingly real.” —S. C. Gwynne
Additional Book Details
Pages: | 512 |
Release Date: | May 28, 2024 |
ISBN: | 9781501183058 |
Club ID: | 1429931 |
Format: | Regular Print |