Breakfast with Salamanders: Seasons On The Appalachian Trail

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Unique among Appalachian Trail books, Breakfast with Salamanders records an eleven-year adventure hiking the entire Trail by sections, in trips ranging from overnights to weeks at a time. Organized by seasons, it looks back to the great tradition in American nature writing running from Thoreau’s Walden through Leopold’s Sand County Almanac and Abbey’s Desert Solitaire. Deeply (and quietly) informed by a Zen Buddhist sensibility and, in later chapters, interspersed with original poems in haiku form, it also evokes Bashō’s Narrow Road to the Deep North. A book to read in quiet hours or, tucked into a backpack, on the trail.