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Grandma Gatewood's Walk

The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

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Grandma Gatewood's Walk

By: Ben Montgomery
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
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Summary

Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than $200. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, atop Maine's Mount Katahdin, she sang the first verse of "America, the Beautiful" and proclaimed, "I said I'll do it, and I've done it." Grandma Gatewood, as the reporters called her, became the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail alone, as well as the first person - man or woman - to walk it twice and three times. The public attention she brought to the little-known footpath was unprecedented. Her vocal criticism of the lousy, difficult stretches led to bolstered maintenance, and very likely saved the trail from extinction.

©2014 Ben Montgomery (P)2014 Tantor Environment Hiking Nature & Ecology North America Outdoors & Nature Science United States Women Conservation Adventure Sports
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"A quiet delight of a book." ( Kirkus)
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narration could have been more varied, interspersed with female voice maybe. somewhat repetitive in places.

Story of human determination & the kindness of strangers

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Loved everything ,to open her heart and not just endure a life of misery she is one battleaxe of a lady I would have loved to have met ,no words can describe her determination and enthusiasm of life and she conquered,age means nothing,her children will have the same ethics of life 🥰

Amazing Grandma

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Great story, audible book very good and clear. highly recommend..this woman who having a cruel wicked husband deserved what she achieved...

Inspiring. makes me want to do it !

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An extremely boring story, as the emphasis was not so much on the woman Ms Gatewood but more on the events to too place in America at the same time as her walk. I would have liked to hear about her thoughts, people she encountered, her fears and her joys. However these were all absent, replaced only with facts and figures.

Boring

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's inspiring, heartwarming and tear jerking. What an incredible lady.

Inspiring and heartwarming

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