The Roamers Book Club Podcast
1) A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
In 1995 travel writer Bill Bryson was living in the United States after residing in England for over twenty years and longed to reconnect with the country he once knew. Despite having little knowledge...Show More
2) Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
In 1996 author Jon Krakauer joined a Mount Everest expedition to document the recent commercialization of the world's highest peak. As an experienced alpinist, Krakauer understood the inherent dangers...Show More
3) The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King
Have you ever been lost in the woods? Did you immediately ball up in the fetal position and scream for help? Stephen King's, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon follows the story of Tricia McFarland, a nine...Show More
4) The White Heart of Mojave by Edna Brush Perkins
After a long fight on the front lines of the women's suffrage movement Edna Brush Perkins and her friend Charlotte Jordan needed a vacation so they did what anyone would do to unwind and traveled for ...Show More
5) Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France by Adin Dobkin
The Roamers dive into the book Sprinting Through No Man's Land by Adin Dobkin who painstakingly chronicled the journey of the 1919 Tour de France cyclists many of whom had recently completed service i...Show More
6) Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Roamers discuss Cheryl Strayed's book Wild which was adapted into the film of the same name staring Reese Witherspoon. In 1995 Strayed set out on the Pacific Crest Trail to traverse 1,100 miles of...Show More
7) Lost in the Jungle by Yossi Ghinsberg
Christine and Kyle read Lost in the Jungle by Yossi Ghinsberg which chronicles the time that Ghinsberg........got lost in the jungle. In 1981 he and three other backpackers tromped into the Amazon jun...Show More
8) Riding On - A Shake the Sleeping Self follow up
The book club revisits Jedediah Jenkins book, To Shake the Sleeping Self by talking to some long distance cyclists about what they're experiences on the road and what they've learned from being on the...Show More
9) Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
For two years in the 1950's Edward Abbey worked as a park ranger in Arches National Park (then monument) spending most of his time alone, contemplating the desert environment, humans relationship to n...Show More
10) Further Downstream - An interview with rafting expert Seth Peterson
As a follow up to Running the Amazon by Joe Kane, Christine interviewed her younger brother Seth Peterson who is a highly skilled whitewater rafting and kayaking guide in the Pacific Northwest.