Just Passin' Thru

en Limba Engleză Paperback – dec 2009

Like a well-crafted stage play, Just Passin' Thru delivers one suspenseful scene after another. But in this historic setting — a store on the Appalachian Trail called Mountain Crossings — the characters who show up are no fictional creations. They are the real-life stars of the author’s new life as a backpack-purging, canteen-selling, hostel-running, bandage-taping, lost-child finding, argument-settling, romance-fixing, chili-making man of many faces. Like any good drama, there are the good guys (and gals) and the weirdos, too. Some show up once (and that’s enough), and some appear again and again. Some are friends, and some dangerous. But all are united by two things: the author’s story-capturing talent, and whatever it is that lures them to attempt (or conquer) a 2,200-mile path that climbs and plummets from Georgia to Maine.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780897328494
ISBN-10: 0897328493
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 40 B&W photos
Dimensiuni: 145 x 218 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Menasha Ridge Press Inc.

Recenzii

"For a guy whose job has him posted in the middle of nowhere, Winton Porter certainly draws a crowd." -Bo Emerson, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"'Just Passin’ Thru is a work of genius."-Former assistant secretary of state for the State of Iowa, Scott Ourth

Notă biografică

Ever since starting his lawn-mowing business at age 10, Winton Porter has found it hard to stay indoors. At 21 he opened B. Bumblefoot and Co., producing hiking sticks for retailers throughout the southeastern United States. And for years he tried the corporate route-selling gear and managing operations at such retailers as REI in Chicago, Salt Lake City, and Atlanta. In 2001, at age 35, he ransacked his 401k and bought the venerable Mountain Crossings store, a hiker's mecca deep in the Georgia woods near the southern end of the Appalachian Trail. It's a blissful match for the lifelong outdoorsman and natural-born storyteller. Now called the Guru of the Appalachian Trail, Winton is famous for his "shakedowns" to help weary hikers lighten their loads. When he's not busy selling boots and shipping hikers' boxes home, he's writing about the zany adventurers that populate the trail and his store. Winton's memory for dialogue, eye for detail, compassion for those in trouble, and gift for humor come together in the 20 chapters that make up his first book, "Just Passin' Thru."

Cuprins

Dedication Special Thanks
Preface
Dream Big . . . Real Big
Pansy-Ass and Other Funny Plants
It Ain't About the Miles
PowerBars and Olive Oil
A Cold Snap
Indian Artifacts
Crawfish and Jambalaya
Snow Day
The Special Gift
Lorac
Minnesota Smith
The Foot
Cultures Collide
The Lady's Slipper Killer
Just Left of Crazy
Samsonite Twins
Double Dose
Swingers in the Crosswinds
International Man of Mystery
Living in the Breezeway of Life
About the Author

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Winton Porter shares tales of the cast of characters that pass through a mountain store and hostel on the Appalachian Trail.

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