{"id":1279,"date":"2019-12-09T14:20:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T14:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2019-12-09T14:20:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T14:20:33","slug":"jean-clemente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2019\/12\/09\/jean-clemente\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Clemente"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flash floods hauling me out to a stormy sea, a treacherous cliffside waiting for a single misstep, or a wrong turn trapping me in a dense jungle\u2014 these are the horrors roaring through my mom\u2019s head when she tells me, \u201cDon\u2019t. Go. Hiking!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet teenage rebellion, of course, meant I ignored these warnings entirely. Why shouldn’t I, after all? In an island as remote as Guam, the ineffable\u00a0allure of the trail\u2014 its isolation, perhaps, or its beauty\u2014 is far greater than the uncertainty of any dangers it could bring.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0 On Trails,<\/em>\u00a0Moor first ponders that allure as he hikes the Appalachian Mountains from Georgia to Katahdin. The result: a book that weaves biology, anthropology, poetry, and history (among others) to explore the concept of the trail. How do trails form,\u00a0and how do they connect with our relationship to wilderness? How does non-human life, from microscopic unicellular life to the macroscopic elephant, understand the concept of the trail? How do our cultural beliefs shape our trails\u2014 and how do trails shape\u00a0us in return? Moor explores these questions as he backpacks across the globe, tracing the weaving networks of life, technology, and philosophy that built today\u2019s world.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Moor asks, \u201cWhat\u00a0 is\u00a0<\/em>a trail?\u201d His answer: the emergence of order from chaos, in life, in history, in thought, and in our individual understanding of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flash floods hauling me out to a stormy sea, a treacherous cliffside waiting for a single misstep, or a wrong turn trapping me in a dense jungle\u2014 these are the horrors roaring through my mom\u2019s head when she tells me, \u201cDon\u2019t. Go. Hiking!\u201d\u00a0 Yet teenage rebellion, of course, meant I ignored these warnings entirely. Why … <\/p>\n

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