Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor Literature
It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished college, and when her friend suggested they hike California’s John Muir Trail, the adventure sounded like the perfect distraction from a difficult home life and thoughts about the future. But she never imagined that the twenty-eight-day hike would change her life. Part memoir, part nature writing, part travelogue, Almost Somewhere is Roberts’s account of that hike.
John Muir wrote of the Sierra Nevada as a “vast range of light,” and that was exactly what Roberts was looking for. But traveling with two girlfriends, one experienced and unflappable and the other inexperienced and bulimic, she quickly discovered that she needed a new frame of reference. Her story of a month in the backcountry—confronting bears, snowy passes, broken equipment, injuries, and strange men—is as much about finding a woman’s way into outdoor experience as it is about the natural world Roberts so eloquently describes. Candid and funny, and finally, wise, Almost Somewhere not only tells the whimsical coming-of-age story of a young woman ill-prepared for a month in the mountains but also reflects a distinctly feminine view of nature.
This new edition includes an afterword by the author looking back on the ways both she and the John Muir Trail have changed over the past thirty years, as well as book club and classroom discussion questions and photographs from the trip.
- 280 pages
- English
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Day 1: Summer’s 3 Percent
- Day 2: Hiking to Tent City in Men’s Underwear
- Day 3: Caught
- Day 4: How Would You Die?
- Day 5: The Commander Cuddles Up to the Murderer?
- Day 6: Symbiosis
- Day 7: Blood Suckers
- Day 8: Gossip with a Bang
- Day 9: Just the Ladies
- Day 10: The Ghost of Muir Pass
- Day 11: Fantasyland
- Day 12: Hungry
- Day 13: Without a Map
- Day 14: Found Out
- Day 15: Flappy
- Day 16: Yay-Man and the Crazies
- Day 17: Spa Day
- Day 18: A Cowboy’s Visit
- Day 19: On Writing
- Day 20: Disordered
- Day 21: Dirty Dirk and Cute Mark
- Day 22: Devils Postpile
- Day 23: Getting Muir
- Day 24: Naked Man and a Water Ouzel
- Day 25: Topless
- Day 26: Fainting and Bears
- Day 27: The Three Wise Women
- Day 28: Yosemite Valley and Beyond
- Afterword
- Book Club and Classroom Discussion Questions for Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail
- Selected Bibliography
- About Suzanne Roberts
- Series List
- Other Works by Suzanne Roberts
- Illustrations
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