Not Too Distant Trails: Appalachian Trail poems, songs, meditations Kent Hesselbein was published in 1953 and

was published in 1953 and has become a classic of American letters

who inspires us or how we respond to being inspired

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Not Too Distant Trails: Appalachian Trail poems, songs, meditations Kent Hesselbein was published in 1953 andAlthough Earl Shaffer is known world wide as the first thru hiker of the Appalachian Trail (having hiked the full length of the Trail in one hiking season in 1948), few know that Earl is also a prolific poet and gifted photographer. Not Too Distant Trails contains a collection of his Appalachian Trail poetry illustrated with 81 color photographs by Earl and the AT community. The Earl Shaffer Foundation proudly presents this book to celebrate Earl's