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100 1 $aWren, Christopher S.$q(Christopher Sale),$d1936-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87087086
245 10 $aWalking to Vermont :$bfrom Times Square into the Green Mountains-- a homeward adventure /$cChristopher S. Wren.
260 $aNew York :$bSimon & Schuster,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $a273 pages :$bmap ;$c22 cm
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520 1 $a"A distinguished former foreign correspondent embraces retirement by setting out alone on foot for nearly four hundred miles, and explores a side of America nearly as exotic as the locales from which he once filed." "Traveling with an unwieldly pack and a keen curiosity, Christopher Wren bids farewell to the New York Times newsroom in midtown Manhattan and saunters up Broadway, through Harlem, the Bronx, and the affluent New York suburbs of Westchester and Putnam Counties. As his trek takes him into the Housatonic River Valley of Connecticut, the Berkshires of Massachusetts, the Green Mountains of Vermont, and along a bucolic riverbank in New Hampshire, the strenuous challenges become as much emotional as physical." "Wren loses his way in a suburban thicket of million-dollar mansions, dodges speeding motorists, seeks serenity at a convent, shivers through a rainy night among Shaker ruins, camps in a stranger's backyard, panhandles cookies and water from a good samaritan, absorbs the lore of the Appalachian and Long Trails, sweats up and down mountains, and lands in a hospital emergency room." "Struggling under the weight of a fifty-pound pack, he gripes, "We might grow less addicted to stuff if everything we bought had to be carried on our backs." He hangs out with fellow wanderers named Old Rabbit, Flash, Gatorman, Stray Dog, and Buzzard, and learns gratitude from the anonymous charity of trail angels. His rite of passage into retirement, with its heat and dust and blisters galore, evokes vivid reminiscences of earlier risks taken, sometimes at gunpoint, during his years spent reporting from Russia, China, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South America, and Africa." "He loses track of time, waking in the sun, stopping to eat when hunger gnaws, and camping under starry skies that transform the nights of solitude. For all the self-inflicted hardship, he reports, "In fact, I felt pretty good." Wren has woven an intensely personal story that is candid and often downright hilarious. As Vermont turns from a destination into a state of mind, he concludes, "I had stumbled upon the secret of how utterly irrevelant chronological age is."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aNew England$xDescription and travel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091261
651 0 $aNew York (State)$xDescription and travel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091440
650 0 $aWalking$zNew England.
650 0 $aWalking$zNew York (State)
600 10 $aWren, Christopher S.$q(Christopher Sale),$d1936-$xTravel$zNew England.
600 10 $aWren, Christopher S.$q(Christopher Sale),$d1936-$xTravel$zNew York (State)
650 0 $aForeign correspondents$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104013
650 0 $aRetirement$zUnited States$xPsychological aspects.
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