Título: A Walk in the Park
Autor: Kevin Fedarko
Sinopse: From the author of the beloved bestseller The Emerald Mile comes a rollicking and poignant account of the epic misadventure of two friends, zero preparation, and one dream: a 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of Americas most magnificent national park and the grandest wilderness on earth. A few years after quitting his job to follow an ill-advised dream of becoming a guide on the Colorado River, Kevin Fedarko was approached by his best friend, the National Geographic photographer Pete McBride, with a vision as bold as it was harebrained. Together, they would embark on an end-to-end traverse of the Grand Canyon, a journey that, McBride promised, would be a walk in the park. Against his better judgment, Fedarko agreed to the scheme, unaware that the small cluster of experts who had completed the crossing billed it as the toughest hike in the world. The ensuing ordeal, which lasted more than a year, revealed a place that was deeper, richer, and far more complex than anything the two men had imaginedand came within a hairs breadth of killing them both. They struggled to make their way through the all but impenetrable reaches of its truest wilderness, a vertical labyrinth of thousand-foot cliffs and crumbling ledges where water is measured out by the teaspoon and every step is fraught with periland where, even today, there is still no trail along the length of the countrys best-known and most iconic park. Along the way, veteran long-distance hikers ushered them into secret pockets, invisible to the millions of tourists gathered on the rim, where only a handful of humans have ever laid eyes. Members of the canyons eleven Native American tribes brought them face-to-face with layers of history that forced them to reconsider myths at the center of our national parksand exposed them to the impinging threats of commercial tourism. Even Fedarkos dying father, who had first pointed him toward the canyon more than forty years earlier but had never set foot there himself, opened him to a new way of seeing the landscape. And always, there was the great gorge itself: austere and unforgiving but suffused with magic, drenched in wonder, and redeemed by its own transcendent beauty. A Walk in the Park is a singular portrait of a sublime place, and a deeply moving plea for the preservation of Americas greatest natural treasure.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “A Walk in the Park”, de Kevin Fedarko, publicado pela editora Simon and Schuster, em 2024 e com 512 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Simon and Schuster
Páginas: 512
Ano: 2024
Edição:
Linguagem: eng
ISBN: 1501183079
ISBN13: 9781501183072
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Simon and Schuster oferecem uma experiência de leitura que varia entre narrativas densas e envolventes, como histórias de guerra e suspense político, e obras mais acessíveis, incluindo literatura infantil ilustrada e guias práticos. O catálogo sugere uma presença significativa de títulos que exploram temas históricos, biográficos e culturais, com um tom que pode ir do didático ao emocional, passando por investigações detalhadas e relatos de sobrevivência. Há também espaço para obras que combinam informação técnica com apelo visual, como livros de receitas e guias ilustrados, além de literatura fantástica e juvenil com ritmo ágil e linguagem simples. Essa diversidade editorial permite que o leitor navegue por títulos que vão do relato factual ao imaginativo, do mais narrativo ao informativo, sempre com atenção à qualidade da pesquisa e à clareza na exposição.
