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A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
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89
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
91/100Critics
88/100Scholars
Author:
Kevin Fedarko
Publisher:
Scribner
Date:
May 28, 2024
An account of the epic misadventure of two friends, zero preparation, and one dream: a 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of America's most magnificent national park and the grandest wilderness on earth.
What The Reviewers Say
A Walk in the Park is a triumph. Fedarko doesn’t describe awe; he induces it, with page-turning action, startling insights and the kind of verbal grace that makes multipage descriptions of, say, a flock of pelicans feel riveting and new.
Passionate, detailed and somewhat lengthy.
The book is its own wonder, one of nature and adventure and humanism that earns its place on the same rarefied shelf that is home to Edward Abbey and John McPhee..
Fedarko expansively describes the journey... with a combination of dry humor and horror, and he pays tribute to the spare beauty, grandeur, and silence of a place that few have seen, resulting in a memorable reading experience..
