On Trails

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In 2009, while thru hiking the Appalachian Trail, Robert Moor began to wonder about the paths that lie beneath our feet How do they form Why do some improve over time while others fade What makes us follow or strike off on our own Over the course of the next seven years, Moor traveled the globe, exploring trails of all kinds, from the miniscule to the massive He learned the tricks of master trail builders, hunted down long lost Cherokee trails, and traced the origins of our road networks and the Internet In each chapter, Moor interweaves his adventures with findings from science, history, philosophy, and nature writing combining the nomadic joys of Peter Matthiessen with the eclectic wisdom of Lewis Hyde s The Gift.Throughout, Moor reveals how this single topic the oft overlooked trail sheds new light on a wealth of age old questions How does order emerge out of chaos How did animals first crawl forth from the seas and spread across continents How has humanity s relationship with nature and technology shaped world around us And, ultimately, how does each of us pick a path through life Moor has the essayist s gift for making new connections, the adventurer s love for paths untaken, and the philosopher s knack for asking big questions With a breathtaking arc that spans from the dawn of animal life to the digital era, On Trails is a book that makes us see our world, our history, our species, and our ways of life anew. New Read [ On Trails ] Author [ Robert Moor ] – kino-fada.fr This book is endlessly fascinating, but don t expect it to follow a straight line Instead, it pursues its own meandering road.When Robert Moor hiked the Appalachian Trail back in 2009, he became interested in the history of the trail itself, and in all other kinds of trails humans follow He wondered why we like trails, why we build so many of them, and why some paths survive and others don t After a lot of research and a fair am...Man is built to walk Actually, man is built to jog, slowly, speaking from a physiological point of view However you ambulate, our bones and muscles are constructed to move and keep moving Sedentary life is no life at all he says while sitting in a chair, typing up this review I love to walk If you have been reading my reviews or blog for long enough, you ll know that This is part of the reason I was so worried when I blew my back out in late 2014 and was so relieved when my surgery in 20 Man is built to walk Actually, man is built to jog, slowly, speaking from a physiological point of view However you ambulate, our bones and muscles are constructed to move and keep moving Sedentary life is no life at all he says while sitting in a chair, typing up this review I love to walk If you have been reading my reviews or blog for long enough, you ll know that This is part of the reason I was so worried when I blew my back out in late 2014 and was so relieved when my surgery in 2015 was largely successful The thought of not being able to walk, for me, makes me almost stop breathing But Moor is not so concerned with the act of walking itself He is concerned with what it is we walk on, paths and trails, and how they are formed and, sometimes, conceived and maintained He starts with the first trails, traces, really, ...This wide ranging study examines many aspects and types of trail making Along the way Moor thru hikes the Appalachian Trail, herds sheep in Arizona, observes elephants, follows ancient Native American paths on deer hunting vigils, and travels to Morocco to scope out new sections for the International Appalachian Trail At times I had trouble seeing the connections between all the dispa...Complete freedom is not what a trail offers Quite the opposite a trail is a tactful reduction of optionsMoor states in the very first chapter that this book is not a ladder and does not lead up to any sort of conclusion, but like the trail, it winds and meanders By and large, the wandering on this book trail was great fun Moor recounting his through hike on the Appalachian Trail although this isof a stage setter, it is definitely not the theme of the book like A Walk in the WoodsComplete freedom is not what a trail offers Quite the opposite a trail is a tactful reduction of optionsMoor states in the very first chapter that this book is not a ladder and does not lead up to any sort of conclusion, but like the trail, it winds and meanders By and large, the wandering on this book trail was great fun Moor recounting his through hike on the Appalachian Trail although this isof a stage setter, it is d...My incentive in reading Moor s On Trails is my own enjoyment of hiking The book delivers so muchthan an examination of walking in the woods, though Moor is a hiker himself, what he calls a thru hiker, one who hikes long distances over established trails of great length He describes some of his own experiences in spending 5 months hiking the entire Appalachian Trail from its beginning in Georgia to the ending on Maine s Mount Katahdin Moor writes interestingly on why people hike and wha My incentive in reading Moor s On Tra...I have a feeling I m going to love this book Note to self read this on next hiking trip.Moor is a long distance walker, he took five months completing the Appalachian Trail, but rather than just the exhilaration in completing this 2190 mile journey he realised that he now had questions about just why we create trails In exploring this phenomena he is shown some of the oldest fossil trails, he learns how and why animals do the same thing, from ants that ...Shiiii I picked up this book because I figured it was about hiking, and I was in a dope bookstore that I wanted to support Best of both worlds I got waaaayfrom this book than I was expecting It was an incredible exploration straight from day 0 of trails ediacaran trails , to a...Ranks with the likes of Annie Dillard and Edward Abbey, an important book for the modern nature reader Read my review in Chicago Review of Books.A good book that admittedly I was stopped from appreciating to its fullest by the second worst narrator I ve ever listened to Let s get that out of the way then the audiobook was poorly edited, the sound was not normalized, many sentences were repeated, and the narrator did accents which were almost ALWAYS inappropriate to the speaker and were often too nasally and or quiet The narrator treated the audiobook like an acting reel, and that probably 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On Trails
  • English
  • 16 July 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 352 pages
  • 1476739218
  • Robert Moor
  • On Trails