Kristi M Fondren

Walking on the Wild Side

Long-Distance Hiking on the Appalachian Trail

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The 2,181-mile Appalachian Trail runs along the Appalachian mountain range from Georgia to Maine. Every year about 2,000 individuals attempt to "thru-hike” the entire trail. Sociologist Kristi M. Fondren traces the stories of forty-six men and women who, for their own personal reasons, set out to conquer America's most well known, and arguably most social, long-distance hiking trail.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 239g
• ISBN-13: 9780813571881
• ISBN-10: 081357188X
• Artikelnr.: 42740535

Autorenporträt

Fondren, Kristi M

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1          From Georgia to Maine: The GA-ME Is Afoot
2          Hiker Trash: Constructing a Long-Distance Hiker Identity
3          April’s Fools: A Situated Subcultural Identity
4          In Search of Ithaka: Long-Distance Hiking as Spiritual Quest
5          The Appalachian Trail, an ATopia? Social Differentiation and
Hierarchies among the Tribe
6          Hike Your Own Hike: What the Hiking Subculture Tells Us about
American Society
Appendix        Research Methodology
References
Index