Walking to listen : what I heard hiking 4,000 miles across the highways of America / Andrew Forsthoefel.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc, [2017]Description: xviii, 371 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781632867001 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1632867001 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 796.510973Â 23
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Chanute Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Chanute Public Library | Adult Books | 796.51 FOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34316002499614 | ||
Book | Independence Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Independence Public Library | Adult Books | 796.51 FORSTHOEFEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 36123001599859 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
At 23, Andrew Forsthoefel walked out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read "Walking to Listen." He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn't know how. So he decided he'd walk. And listen. It would be a cross-country quest for guidance, and everyone he met would be his guide. Walking toward the Pacific, he faced an Appalachian winter and a Mojave summer. He met beasts inside: fear, loneliness, doubt. But he also encountered incredible kindness from strangers. Thousands shared their stories with him, sometimes confiding their prejudices, too. Often he didn't know how to respond. How to find unity in diversity? How to stay connected, even as fear works to tear us apart? He listened for answers to these questions, and to the existential questions every human must face, and began to find that the answer might be in listening itself. Ultimately, it's the stories of others living all along the roads of America that carry this journey and sing out in a hopeful, heartfelt book about how a life is made, and how our nation defines itself on the most human level.
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