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Mountain Lines: A Journey Through the French Alps (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781510709751)
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Jonathan Arlan
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xA New York Times best summer travel book recommendation
A nonfiction debut about an American's solo, month-long, 400-mile walk from Lake Geneva to Nice. In the summer of 2015, Jonathan Arlan was nearing thirty. Restless, bored, and daydreaming of adventure, he comes across an image on the Internet one day: a map of the southeast corner of France with a single red line snaking south from Lake Geneva, through the jagged brown and white peaks of the Alps to the Mediterranean sea--a route more than four hundred miles long. He decides then and there to walk the whole trail solo.
Lacking any outdoor experience, completely ignorant of mountains, sorely out of shape, and fighting last-minute nerves and bad weather, things get off to a rocky start. But Arlan eventually finds his mountain legs--along with a staggering variety of aches and pains--as he tramps a narrow thread of grass, dirt, and rock between cloud-collared, ice-capped peaks in the High Alps, through ancient hamlets built into hillsides, across sheep-dotted mountain pastures, and over countless cols on his way to the sea. In time, this simple, repetitive act of walking for hours each day in the remote beauty of the mountains becomes as exhilarating as it is exhausting.
Mountain Lines is the stirring account of a month-long journey on foot through the French Alps and a passionate and intimate book laced with humor, wonder, and curiosity. In the tradition of trekking classics like A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, The Snow Leopard, and Tracks, the book is a meditation on movement, solitude, adventure, and the magnetic power of the natural world.
Author: Jonathan Arlan
ISBN-10: 1510709754
ISBN-13: 9781510709751
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Language: English
Published: 02/14/2017
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.30d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2016
Publishers Weekly 01/09/2017
Library Journal 02/01/2017 pg. 94
Foreword 02/03/2017
A nonfiction debut about an American's solo, month-long, 400-mile walk from Lake Geneva to Nice. In the summer of 2015, Jonathan Arlan was nearing thirty. Restless, bored, and daydreaming of adventure, he comes across an image on the Internet one day: a map of the southeast corner of France with a single red line snaking south from Lake Geneva, through the jagged brown and white peaks of the Alps to the Mediterranean sea--a route more than four hundred miles long. He decides then and there to walk the whole trail solo.
Lacking any outdoor experience, completely ignorant of mountains, sorely out of shape, and fighting last-minute nerves and bad weather, things get off to a rocky start. But Arlan eventually finds his mountain legs--along with a staggering variety of aches and pains--as he tramps a narrow thread of grass, dirt, and rock between cloud-collared, ice-capped peaks in the High Alps, through ancient hamlets built into hillsides, across sheep-dotted mountain pastures, and over countless cols on his way to the sea. In time, this simple, repetitive act of walking for hours each day in the remote beauty of the mountains becomes as exhilarating as it is exhausting.
Mountain Lines is the stirring account of a month-long journey on foot through the French Alps and a passionate and intimate book laced with humor, wonder, and curiosity. In the tradition of trekking classics like A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, The Snow Leopard, and Tracks, the book is a meditation on movement, solitude, adventure, and the magnetic power of the natural world.
Author: Jonathan Arlan
ISBN-10: 1510709754
ISBN-13: 9781510709751
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Language: English
Published: 02/14/2017
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.30d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2016
Publishers Weekly 01/09/2017
Library Journal 02/01/2017 pg. 94
Foreword 02/03/2017
By Jonathan Arlan
xJonathan Arlan is a writer, editor, and inveterate walker. Born and raised on the Great Plains, he has lived in New Orleans, New York, Egypt, Japan, and Serbia and traveled in over thirty-five countries. This is his first book. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri.
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