George Meegan

eBook, ePUB

The Longest Walk (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

The book is a throw back to the Victorian travelers and is the perils and diseases of South America.

Including Skurvy.

I was married en route and we had 2 beautiful children who joined me in British Columbia and Alaska.

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 4.88MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

George Meegan (born December 2, 1952) is a British long-distance walker best known for his unbroken walk of the entire Western Hemisphere from the southern tip of South America to the northernmost part of Alaska at Prudhoe Bay. This journey on foot was of 19,019 miles (30,608 km) in 2,425 days (1977-1983) and is documented in his book The Longest Walk (1988). He has appeared often in the press including the Today Show three times, CBS Morning News and on Larry King Live. These days Meegan lives Internationally and has a wife, Yoshiko, in Japan. They have two children. He ran as an Independent candidate for the Gillingham and Rainham constituency for the 2010 General Election.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Books by George Meegan
• Seitenzahl: 375
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781641336529
• Artikelnr.: 62462176