The Last Great Walk: The True Story of a 1909 Walk from New York to San Francisco, and Why it Matters Today

by Wayne Curtis

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In 1909, Edward Payson Weston walked from New York to San Francisco, covering around 40 miles a day and greeted by wildly cheering audiences in every city. The New York Times called it the "first bona-fide walk . . . across the American continent," and eagerly chronicled a journey in which Weston was beset by fatigue, mosquitos, vicious headwinds, and brutal heat. He was 70 years old.

In The Last Great Walk, journalist Wayne Curtis uses the framework of Weston's fascinating and surprising story, and investigates exactly what we lost when we turned away from foot travel, and...Read more
  • ISBN10 1609613724
  • ISBN13 9781609613723
  • Publish Date 9 September 2014
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 30 July 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Rodale Books