Walking to Vermont
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Numar articol:180557697
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A distinguished former foreign correspondent embraces retirement by
setting out alone on foot for nearly four hundred miles, and
explores a side of America nearly as exotic as the locales from
which he once filed. Traveling with an unwieldy pack and a keen
curiosity, Christopher Wren bids farewell to the New York Times
newsroom in midtown Manhattan and saunters up Broadway, through
Harlem, the Bronx, and the affluent New York suburbs of Westchester
and Putnam Counties. As his trek takes him into the Housatonic
River Valley of Connecticut, the Berkshires of Massachusetts, the
Green Mountains of Vermont, and along a bucolic riverbank in New
Hampshire, the strenuous challenges become as much emotional as
physical. Wren loses his way in a suburban thicket of
million-dollar mansions, dodges speeding motorists, seeks serenity
at a convent, shivers through a rainy night among Shaker ruins,
camps in a stranger's backyard, panhandles cookies and water from a
good samaritan, absorbs the lore of the Appalachian and Long
Trails, sweats up and down mountains, and lands in a hospital
emergency room. Struggling under the weight of a fifty-pound pack,
he gripes, We might grow less addicted to stuff if everything we
bought had to be carried on our backs. He hangs out with fellow
wanderers named Old Rabbit, Flash, Gatorman, Stray Dog, and
Buzzard, and learns gratitude from the anonymous charity of trail
angels. His rite of passage into retirement, with its heat and dust
and blisters galore, evokes vivid reminiscences of earlier risks
taken, sometimes at gunpoint, during his years spent reporting from
Russia, China, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South America, and
Africa. He loses track of time, waking with the sun, stopping to
eat when hunger gnaws, and camping under starry skies that
transform the nights of solitude. For all the self-inflicted
hardship, he reports, In fact, I felt pretty good. Wren has woven
an intensely personal story that is candid and often downright
hilarious. As Vermont turns from a destination into a state of
mind, he concludes, I had stumbled upon the secret of how utterly
irrelevant chronological age is. This book, from the author of the
acclaimed bestseller The Cat Who Covered the World, will delight
not just hikers, walkers, and other lovers of the outdoors, but
also anyone who contemplates retirement, wonders about foreign
correspondents, or relishes a lively, off-beat adventure, even when
it unfolds close to home.
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