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Original Title:	A Walk Across America
ISBN:	006095955X (ISBN13: 9780060959555)
Edition Language:	English

A Walk Across America

Peter Jenkins

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 4.04 | 10818 Users | 625 Reviews

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Title	:	A Walk Across America
Author	:	Peter Jenkins
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	September 18th 2001 by William Morrow Paperbacks (first published January 1st 1979)
Categories	:	Travel. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Adventure. Biography

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Twenty-five years ago, a disillusioned young man set out on a walk across America. This is the book he wrote about that journey -- a classic account of the reawakening of his faith in himself and his country.

"I started out searching for myself and my country," Peter Jenkins writes, "and found both." In this timeless classic, Jenkins describes how disillusionment with society in the 1970s drove him out onto the road on a walk across America. His experiences remain as sharp and telling today as they were twenty-five years ago -- from the timeless secrets of life, learned from a mountain-dwelling hermit, to the stir he caused by staying with a black family in North Carolina, to his hours of intense labor in Southern mills. Many, many miles later, he learned lessons about his country and himself that resonate to this day -- and will inspire a new generation to get out, hit the road and explore.

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Ratings: 4.04 From 10818 Users | 625 Reviews

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I found this book in a tiny library in Maine for 50 cents. I had not traveled in awhile and did not want to stop (had a return flight to catch unfortunately). So, I decided to live through Peter Jenkins and his epic tale of his walk across America. As a recent college graduate, Peter is a young man disillusioned with his country. He contemplates leaving it before settling on seeing it on foot.Peter Jenkins'writing is simplistic and clichéd. One would think he is getting paid $100 every time he

Both more and less readable than I expected. Choosing to hope for the best for Mr. Jenkins. Assigned as a geography title to go with Ambleside Online year 11.

I love this book. I love the authentic voice of Peter Jenkins. He has amazing stories to tell, and the focus is less on writing style than content, which is one of my favorite things about this book. Jenkins shares his experience about learning of and loving his neighbors - all across America. This book makes me think of a word so often used in yoga practice - connectedness. We are all connected, and this book celebrates that. Of course the fact that Kenkins travels with his best, forever

A man and his beloved dog walk across America (or, more precisely, from upstate NY to New Orleans). They live with black farmers, befriend white Southerners whom Gov. George Wallace addresses on TV as if they are family members, and moonlight at a farming commune in Tennessee. The book ends in New Orleans, where the author finds a wife, marries her, and convinces her to walk the remaining 3,000 miles across America.In her book Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Rebecca Solnit has a perceptive

Loved the book. I walk to my future mother in laws house listened to it every day.

I really liked this book, except that I had to read it on paper since I couldn't find it in electronic form 8-)It's one of those books that makes you realize there still are good people out there willing to help a stranger. It is about events that took place starting in 1973 and ending in 1975. In spite of it being a different era from today, I would like to hope that there still are good people in the country that would help a person like the people Peter Jenkins met on his trek.I won't tell

*** SPOILER ALERT *** My dad gave me this book to read. While I 100% appreciate that he was thinking of me, it wasn't until I was 2/3 of the way through the book that I realized I had picked up and put down this book before. Why? THE DOG DIES. Aside from this tragedy (yes, I know it's a real-life story and this is how it happened. I still don't want to read about beloved companions that are tragically killed!), the book was just ok. The little burst on the front of the book claims that this