A Walk in the Park - The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the epic adventure tale The Emerald Mile comes the most dramatic and deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mile trek.

About the author

Kevin Fedarko has spent the past twenty years writing about conservation, exploration, and the Grand Canyon. He has been a staff writer at Time, where he worked primarily on the foreign affairs desk, and a senior editor at Outside, where he covered outdoor adventure. His writing has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times, and Esquire, among other publications. He is the author of The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon, which won the Reading the West Book Award, and A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon, which won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Both books were also New York Times bestsellers and winners of a National Outdoor Book Award. He lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Summary

From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the epic adventure tale The Emerald Mile comes the most dramatic and deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mile trek.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Fedarko, Fedarko Kevin
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.07.2024
• EAN: 9781501183058
• ISBN: 978-1-5011-8305-8
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 36 mm
• Weight: 665 g
• Illustrations: b&w photos throughout; 2x8-pg 4-c inserts
• Subjects: Guides > Sport; Humanities, art, music > History; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; Grand Canyon, Arizona, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports, Travel writing, Autobiography: sport, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, True stories of survival of abuse and injustice