The world walk : 7 years. 28,000 miles. 6 continents. : a grand meditation, one step at a time
(2024)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
MEMOIR/TURCICH,T

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Biography & Memoir MEMOIR/TURCICH,T Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2024]
©2024
DESCRIPTION

xii, 284 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781510779013, 1510779019 :, 1510779019, 9781510779013
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Preface -- Learning to live -- The unexpected support -- A blistered beginning -- The darker path -- Trust your gut -- Lou-Lou -- Lessons in fortune -- The path to fluency -- The man with the machete -- Thieves in the tunnel -- The note in the desert -- Emptying out -- Road to Arica -- The top of things -- The rapid descent -- A dying dream -- Echoes of anguish -- San Sebastián -- Finding the way -- The escorts -- Leaving the Maghreb -- The pigeon and the boar -- The family from Krk -- Turkish wedding -- The lights of Tbilisi -- Attack in the mountains -- The closing of the world -- The suspect -- Butterfly Valley -- The final adventure -- The shadows of a new moon -- The dull pain of it all -- The wildfire -- Winter in the west -- The homecoming -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- A final note of gratitude

After the death of a close friend at seventeen, Tom Turcich resolved to make the most out of life; to travel and be forced into adventure; to experience and understand the world. On April 2nd, 2015, he set out to see it all--one step at a time.The World Walk is the emotional and exhilarating story of the tenth person and first dog to walk around the world. Together, Turcich and his dog Savannah covered twenty-eight thousand miles over the course of seven years

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