Description

In 1948 the Appalachian Trail had been a continuous 2000mile footpath for eleven years but no one had walked its length alone in a continuous journeyuntil Earl Shaffer a quiet Pennsylvanian became a hiking legend and the first of what is now more than 5500 AT thruhikers walking from Georgia to Maine as spring arrived to each area In 1998 he hiked again as a 50thanniversary celebration to far greater publicity This is the lyrical account of his fabled 1948 walk