A Walk Across America

by Jenkins, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780060959555
• ISBN10: 006095955X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-15
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Twenty-five years ago, a disillusioned young man set out on a walk across America. This is the book he wrote about that journey -- a classic account of the reawakening of his faith in himself and his country."I started out searching for myself and my country," Peter Jenkins writes, "and found both." In this timeless classic, Jenkins describes how disillusionment with society in the 1970s drove him out onto the road on a walk across America. His experiences remain as sharp and telling today as they were twenty-five years ago -- from the timeless secrets of life, learned from a mountain-dwelling hermit, to the stir he caused by staying with a black family in North Carolina, to his hours of intense labor in Southern mills. Many, many miles later, he learned lessons about his country and himself that resonate to this day -- and will inspire a new generation to get out, hit the road and explore.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Talkin' by a Wood Stove	1	(7)
Mount California	8	(17)
Walking into the Country	25	(12)
A New Nikon	37	(8)
Thanksgiving and Five Red Apples	45	(14)
Homer's Mountain	59	(16)
The Code	75	(4)
Fifteen Big-man Burgers	79	(6)
Real High	85	(11)
The Dark Black Shadow	96	(4)
Delirious	100	(4)
Hanging Hill	104	(9)
Smokey Hollow	113	(21)
Lemm and Preacher	134	(7)
Sweet Milk, Booze and Lightning	141	(9)
The Pigpen	150	(4)
Locomotive's Coming!	154	(8)
Pau Pau	162	(13)
The Blue-eyed Dane	175	(10)
The Farm	185	(14)
Down a Deer Trail	199	(5)
The Water Truck	204	(7)
TAA	211	(8)
Shelby County	219	(7)
``The Guv-na''	226	(8)
Miss Margaret and M.C.	234	(11)
Mobile	245	(5)
The Revival	250	(13)
The Gulf of Mexico	263	(4)
Holding Hands	267	(24)
Afterword	291