On Trails

by Robert Moor

[Lianne]

I was provided a copy of this book by the publishers in exchange for an honest review. This review was originally posted at eclectictales.com: http://www.eclectictales.com/blog/2016/10/11/books-a-batch-of-mini-reviews-13/

Unfortunately it was clear by the first chapter that this book just wasn’t for me. It’s an odd book to be sure; the author in the prologue talks about his experiences hiking and how it became a formative part of his life, leading into the premise of the book and what he hoped to examine over the course of it (which, it took a while to get to that point; I spent most of the prologue wondering exactly what this book was going to be about–despite of the description above). But it just didn’t seem to grab my attention, the points seem to run all over the place for me, and ultimately I realised I’d rather walk the trails than read about it. This book may interest those more into nature writing, but this was a DNF for me.