Overview
"""Lace up your hiking boots! Let Griffin guide you over granite mountains, through thunderstorms, and wildflower-studded meadows."" -Barbara Olson Lawrence, author of the forthcoming Drawing Water Three friends, women in their fifties, set out to hike ""the most beautiful long-distance trail in the world,"" the John Muir Trail. From the outset, their adventure is complicated by self-inflicted accidents and ferocious weather, then enriched when they ""adopt"" a young hiker abandoned by her partner along the trail. The women experience the terror of lightning at eleven-thousand feet, the thrill of walking through a towering waterfall, and the joy of dancing among midnight moonshadows. For a month, they live immersed in vast natural beauty, tackle the trail's physical demands, and find camaraderie among an ensemble cast of eccentric trail characters. Together, they are pulled forward toward the trail's end atop the highest peak in the High Sierra, Mt. Whitney, and the culmination of their transformative journey. Force of Nature is equal parts gripping adventure tale, personal memoir, and vivid nature writing."
Full Product Details
Author: Joan M Griffin
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
Imprint: Black Rose Writing
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.581kg
ISBN: 9781685132811
ISBN 10: 1685132812
Pages: 396
Publication Date: 28 September 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""See the beauty, feel the pain, experience the magic."" -Arnold Marsden, author of Muir Trail Magic and veteran of the JMT ""Come along on the adventure of your life!"" -Dierdre Wolownick, author of The Sharp End of Life and the oldest woman to climb El Capitan ""Force of Nature made me ache to get back on the trail."" -Patricia Dove Miller, author of Bamboo Secrets ""Lace up your hiking boots! Let Griffin guide you over granite mountains, through thunderstorms, and wildflower-studded meadows."" -Barbara Olson Lawrence, author of the forthcoming Drawing Water"
Author Information
Joan lives under the spell of wanderlust. She takes wing, whenever possible, for actual destinations near and far and for literary locales in the pages of books. A third-generation Californian and proud UCLA Bruin, Joan lives in the Northern California foothills of the majestic Sierra Nevada, a world she loves exploring. Joan navigated her way through two careers-marketing computers, then sailboats-before applying her love of storytelling to her dual passions for teaching and writing.
