Forsthoefel Andrew
Forsthoefel Andrew - Walking To Listen 4,000 Miles Across America One Story At A Time - Paperback
Forsthoefel Andrew - Walking To Listen 4,000 Miles Across America One Story At A Time - Paperback
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Description: A memoir of one young man's coming - of - age on a cross - country trek - - told through the stories of the people of all ages races and inclinations he meets along the highways of America. At twenty - three Andrew Forsthoefel walked out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford Pennsylvania with a backpack an audio recorder his copies of Whitman and Rilke and a sign that read walking to listen. He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life but he didn t know how. So he decided he d walk. And listen. It would be a cross - country quest for guidance and everyone he met would be his guide. Walking toward the Pacific he faced an Appalachian winter and a Mojave summer. He met beasts inside: fear loneliness doubt. But he also encountered incredible kindness from strangers. Thousands shared their stories with him sometimes confiding their prejudices too. Often he didn t know how to respond. How to find unity in diversity? How to stay connected even as fear works to tear us apart? He listened for answers to these questions and to the existential questions every human must face and began to find that the answer might be in listening itself. Ultimately it's the stories of others living all along the roads of America that carry this journey and sing out in a hopeful heartfelt book about how a life is made and how our nation defines itself at the most human level.
Title: Walking To Listen 4,000 Miles Across America One Story At A Time
Author(s): Forsthoefel Andrew
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Usa
Barcode: 9781632867018
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 4/17/2018
Category: Prose: Non-Fiction
Description: A memoir of one young man's coming - of - age on a cross - country trek - - told through the stories of the people of all ages races and inclinations he meets along the highways of America. At twenty - three Andrew Forsthoefel walked out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford Pennsylvania with a backpack an audio recorder his copies of Whitman and Rilke and a sign that read walking to listen. He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life but he didn t know how. So he decided he d walk. And listen. It would be a cross - country quest for guidance and everyone he met would be his guide. Walking toward the Pacific he faced an Appalachian winter and a Mojave summer. He met beasts inside: fear loneliness doubt. But he also encountered incredible kindness from strangers. Thousands shared their stories with him sometimes confiding their prejudices too. Often he didn t know how to respond. How to find unity in diversity? How to stay connected even as fear works to tear us apart? He listened for answers to these questions and to the existential questions every human must face and began to find that the answer might be in listening itself. Ultimately it's the stories of others living all along the roads of America that carry this journey and sing out in a hopeful heartfelt book about how a life is made and how our nation defines itself at the most human level.
Title: Walking To Listen 4,000 Miles Across America One Story At A Time
Author(s): Forsthoefel Andrew
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Usa
Barcode: 9781632867018
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 4/17/2018
Category: Prose: Non-Fiction
