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A Grip on the Mane of Life: An Authorized Biography of Earl V. Shaffer

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A Grip on the Mane of Life: An Authorized Biography of Earl V. ShafferAfter serving four and a half years in the Army during World War II mostly in the battle torn islands of the South Pacific and along the way losing his best friend at Iwo Jima, Earl Shaffer came home to Pennsylvania with a large dose of military depression. After rattling around for a while, he decided to act upon a prewar dream of hiking the entire Appalachian Trail, a decision that was spurred by reading a magazine article stating that such a feat

After serving four-and-a-half years in the Army during World War II--mostly in the battle-torn islands of the South Pacific--and along the way losing his best friend at Iwo Jima, Earl Shaffer came home to Pennsylvania with a large dose of military depression. After rattling around for a while, he decided to act upon a prewar dream of hiking the entire Appalachian Trail, a decision that was spurred by reading a magazine article stating that such a feat was likely impossible. Earl achieved his goal, and he forever earned a niche in hiking history. Over the course of three decades, he wrote a memoir of that hike that is published by the Appalachian Trail Conservancy as Walking with Spring. The book became an instant hiking classic. Most of Earl's writing was devoted to his first love, poetry. Earl penned more than a thousand poems during his spartan lifetime in rural Pennsylvania, a trove that includes a respectable number of polished gems. In midlife, he returned to hiking. In 1963, he hiked five hundred miles of the Cascade Crest Trail, and, in 1965, he again hiked the entire Appalachian Trail--this time in the opposite direction. When not hiking, Earl spent most of his free time working on the Trail. He built trail, corresponded with would-be thru-hikers, constructed shelters, and masterminded a major trail relocation in Pennsylvania. These were not his only interests. Earl was moved by the plight of native Americans. In the early 1960s, Earl played an active role in the ultimately failed effort to stop construction of Pennsylvania's Kinzua Dam. After what one would think was already a full and productive life, Earl had yet another dream--his grand finale. In 1998, Earl decided to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his first A.T. thru-hike by doing an encore. Just a few weeks shy of his eightieth birthday, Earl Shaffer climbed yet again to the crest of Maine's mile-high mountain, Katahdin, whereupon the Appalachian Trail icon became a national legend. This book is his previously untold story of a life off the trail.



Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Appalachian Trail Conference
Published: 02/01/2015
ISBN: 9780991221523
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d
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