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Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
Maybe someday
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21/100Critics
44/100Scholars
Author:
Andrea Lankford
Publisher:
Hachette Books
Date:
August 22, 2023
This female-driven true crime adventure follows the author's quest to find missing hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail by pairing up with an eclectic group of unlikely allies.
What The Reviewers Say
A book that satisfies and educates.
Trail of the Lost stumbles along its journey: Ms. Lankford has a propensity to overuse the adjective “cute,” and one of the first sources she cites is an undergraduate thesis. But one accepts the author’s idiosyncrasies because it’s hard to imagine who else could have produced a work like this. Her book is a sprawling portrait of an area whose fantastical features practically necessitate the use of metaphor..
A rich, multilayered narrative that works on three different levels.
In a book that is part true crime, part wilderness cautionary tale, Lankford follows the lost hikers with intensity and compassion. The narrative is paced well, and the author ably demonstrates the hardships of uncertainty and fear in the wake of the unknown..
