http://booksforhikers.com Books and videos on trails, backpacking, and hiking Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:50:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The FEATURED BOOK for March has just been added. http://booksforhikers.com/2008/03/04/new-featured-book/ APPALACHIAN TRAIL Krentzel, Jarrett.  Walking with Pacence:  A True Journey.  New York:  iUniverse, 2007. PACIFIC CREST TRAIL Egbert, Barbara. Zero Days: The Real-Life Adventure of Captain Bligh, Nelly Bly, and Ten-Year-Old Scrambler on the Pacific Crest Trail. Berkeley, Calif.: Wilderness Press, 2008. http://booksforhikers.com/2008/02/22/new-books-added/ The ADT book list is up and the description is on THE TRAILS page. http://booksforhikers.com/2008/01/03/and-the-american-discovery-trail/ The trail description for the Ice Age Trail is now up on THE TRAILS page. http://booksforhikers.com/2008/01/02/more-on-the-ianst/ The ICE AGE TRAIL book list is up. Have a great year!! http://booksforhikers.com/2007/12/31/happy-new-year-readers/ The eArThworm found this damp day a good time to crawl up to the computer and get busy at the keyboard. Here's what she's done today: Hiking with Children: added this new category under OUTDOOR SKILLS. The Long Trail: added this new trail description in THE TRAILS. Appalachian Trail. Memoirs.: ... http://booksforhikers.com/2007/12/29/new-for-the-end-of-2007/ This website just won an award in the 2007 American Trails Website Contest. This is from their website at http://www.americantrails.org/webcon07.html: "...American Trails launched the first-ever contest to seek out the best websites in the cyberworld of trails and greenways. We looked for sites that really make trails come alive, ... http://booksforhikers.com/2007/09/27/exciting-news/ I've begun the process of making each title, where possible, link to a site where it can be purchased. Some of the older (or more ephemeral) books and videos are not available at Amazon.com or other online book stores, but I'll be linking all I can find. ... http://booksforhikers.com/2007/06/24/in-the-market-for-one-of-the-books-or-videos/ Welcome hikers! I owe a HUGE debt of gratitude to Sandy Friend, Communications Director of the Florida Trail Association & website-guru extraordinaire, for her creation of this blog's header from my rough 'drawing-on-a-napkin' and for hosting this new site. Also a big 'thank you' to Mara Factor, hiker extraordinaire and gear guru, ... http://booksforhikers.com/2007/06/19/welcome-and-acknowledgments/ I'm proud to announce the new incarnation of "Backcountry Bibliography," which Linda "eArThworm" Patton has been maintaining on Mara Factor's "Travels and Trails" website at http://friends.backcountry.net/m_factor for many years. Welcome to her new site, Books for Hikers! This site will contain all of the current Backcountry Bibliography and will be ... http://booksforhikers.com/2007/06/18/welcome-to-books-for-hikers/