Walking on the Wild Side

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Fondren, Kristi M

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The 2,181-mile Appalachian Trail runs along the Appalachian mountain range from Georgia to Maine. Every year about 2,000 individuals attempt to "thru-hike” the entire trail. Sociologist Kristi M. Fondren traces the stories of forty-six men and women who, for their own personal reasons, set out to conquer America's most well known, and arguably most social, long-distance hiking trail.

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1 From Georgia to Maine: The GA-ME Is Afoot
2 Hiker Trash: Constructing a Long-Distance Hiker Identity
3 April’s Fools: A Situated Subcultural Identity
4 In Search of Ithaka: Long-Distance Hiking as Spiritual Quest
5 The Appalachian Trail, an ATopia? Social Differentiation and Hierarchies among the Tribe
6 Hike Your Own Hike: What the Hiking Subculture Tells Us about American Society
Appendix Research Methodology
References
Index