About this item
Highlights
- "Lace up your hiking boots!
- Author(s): Joan M Griffin
- 396 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, Adventurers & Explorers
Description
About the Book
A gripping adventure memoir enriched by vivid nature writing, Force of Nature will carry you along the John Muir Trail with "The Three Women."
Book Synopsis
"Lace up your hiking boots! Let Griffin guide you over granite mountains, through thunderstorms, and wildflower-studded meadows." -Barbara Olson Lawrence, author of the forthcoming Drawing Water
Three friends, women in their fifties, set out to hike "the most beautiful long-distance trail in the world," the John Muir Trail. From the outset, their adventure is complicated by self-inflicted accidents and ferocious weather, then enriched when they "adopt" a young hiker abandoned by her partner along the trail.
The women experience the terror of lightning at eleven-thousand feet, the thrill of walking through a towering waterfall, and the joy of dancing among midnight moonshadows. For a month, they live immersed in vast natural beauty, tackle the trail's physical demands, and find camaraderie among an ensemble cast of eccentric trail characters. Together, they are pulled forward toward the trail's end atop the highest peak in the High Sierra, Mt. Whitney, and the culmination of their transformative journey.
Force of Nature is equal parts gripping adventure tale, personal memoir, and vivid nature writing.
Review Quotes
"Three women set out to conquer the John Muir Trail in Griffin's debut memoir. An inspiring, empowering memoir by a talented new author." -Kirkus Reviews
"Griffin matches every gripping moment on the trail with an ode to the spectacular landscape of the Sierra, her life-long love for the mountains beaming through her storytelling." -Trail Magazine
"Author Joan M Griffin's storytelling brings this remarkable journey to life, making it a must-read for both adventure enthusiasts and nature lovers that really delves deep into the importance of the journey rather than just the trek itself." -Readers' Favorite
"See the beauty, feel the pain, experience the magic." -Arnold Marsden, author of Muir Trail Magic and veteran of the JMT
"Come along on the adventure of your life!" -Dierdre Wolownick, author of The Sharp End of Life and the oldest woman to climb El Capitan
"Force of Nature made me ache to get back on the trail." -Patricia Dove Miller, author of Bamboo Secrets
"Lace up your hiking boots! Let Griffin guide you over granite mountains, through thunderstorms, and wildflower-studded meadows." -Barbara Olson Lawrence, author of the forthcoming Drawing Water