Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks, by Bill McKibben. Crown Journeys, 2005. FIRST EDITION, Now out of print. Hardcover with colorful dust jacket. Here Bill McKibben begins his journey atop Vermont's Mount Abraham, with a stunning view to the west that introduces us to the broad Champlain Valley, the expanse of Lake Champlain, and behind it, the towering wall of the Adirondacks. The region he traverses offers a fine contrast between diverse forms of human habitation and pure wilderness. This is a wise and hopeful book that enables us to better understand our place in the natural world. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half title page.

Donated by the Walden Woods Project.