From a brilliant new literary voice, an astonishing exploration of how trails can help us understand the world—from insect pheromone trails to the Appalachian Trail, from neural pathways to the Internet.
In 2009, Robert Moor thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail. It was the culmination of a dream he'd held since childhood and the beginning of a journey that would lead him to investigate trails of all kinds—from tiny insect trails and neural pathways to sprawling buffalo trails, highway systems, even the internet. The result of his travels, On Trails, explores what unites these networks and reveals in turn how trails allow us to make sense of our world. This is a book that combines the nomadic joys of A Walk in the Woods with the raw wisdom of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Over the course of seven years, Moor travelled the globe, hiking from the Appalachians to the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. He tracked down the world's oldest...
