Click for larger view.	A bliss-and-blister account of what it takes to hike the 2000-mile Appalachian Trail end-to-end — and enjoy it! An adventure away from Interstates and into backwoods America. Cross the Smokies, survive Virginia floods, buck New Jersey heat, walk the Presidentials of the White Mountains, and a mile-deep gorge. Then, one hundred and fifty days later, stand victorious on the summit of Katahdin. Everything and then some about The Great Hike from Georgia to Maine. Sherman and Older write with spirit and wit. They’re good observers, playful, responsive to place names and places.   —Peggy Thomson,     The Washington Post A total of 181 people were thru-hikers from 1936 to 1973, the year Sherman and Older hiked it. Today, in a single year, as many as 600 men, women and children become end-to-enders. Over the years, many people wrote, phoned and emailed requests for copies of APPALACHIAN ODYSSEY. Now in partnership with iUniverse, the Authors Guild selected APPALACHIAN ODYSSEY as part of its special Back-in-Print program to renew this American classic for the Green Generation. Inspiring for all ages whether you’re a backpacker, day-tripper or armchair hiker. Appalachian Odyssey is not only a readable and very human book but a cleansing and replenishing one.   —Robert Kirsch,     Los Angeles Times
	APPALACHIAN ODYSSEY; WALKING THE TRAIL FROM GEORGIA TO MAINE  Steve Sherman and Julia Older    Foreword by Edward Abbey  $19.95. (248 pp.) Quality Trade Paperbound  Authors Guild Back-in-Print, iUniverse. 2009  ISBN 978-1-4401-1530-1  Prompt shipment Autographed copies available! Click here for info. Order this book using PayPal: Click here to see both ways to order.