Walking on the Wild Side : Long-Distance Hiking on the Appalachian Trail /

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"Walking on the Wild Side traces the stories of forty-six men and women who, for their own personal reasons, set out to hike America's most well-known, and arguably most social, long-distance hiking trail. Once on the Appalachian Trail, long-distance hikers live mostly in isolation, with t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Fondren, Kristi McLeod, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Travel.
Subculture.
Social conditions.
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Hiking > Social aspects.
Hikers.
NATURE > Regional.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
Subculture > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Self-actualization (Psychology) > Case studies.
Subculture > United States > Case studies.
Hikers > Appalachian Trail > Social conditions.
Hikers > Appalachian Trail > Biography.
Hiking > Social aspects > Appalachian Trail.
United States > Appalachian Trail.
United States.
Appalachian Trail > Conditions sociales.
Appalachian Trail > Biographies.
Appalachian Trail > Descriptions et voyages.
Appalachian Trail > Social conditions.
Appalachian Trail > Biography.
Appalachian Trail > Description and travel.
Case studies.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From Georgia to Maine : the GA-ME is afoot
  • Hiker trash : constructing a long-distance hiker identity
  • April's fools : a situated subcultural identity
  • In search of Ithaka : long-distance hiking as spiritual quest
  • The Appalachian Trail, an atopia? : social differentiation and hierarchies among the tribe
  • Hike your own hike : what the hiking subculture tells us about American society
  • Appendix.

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