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Beauty May She Walk, by Leslie Mass In
Beauty May She Walk, by Leslie
Mass. Hardcover, 416 pages, $21.95 Read a review!
On the trail, Leslie struggles with how to balance the needs of her family and friends while making the trail a priority; how to shed years of social conditioning that dictate how a woman should act; and how to know when to ask for help, while understanding that sometimes, help has to come from within. Hike alone with Leslie for the first few weeks as she learns how to pitch a tent in the rain, how to keep animals out of her food, and how to lighten the load on her back. Sympathize when, as the terrain toughens, she struggles to physically keep up with the trail community she depends on socially to keep going. Explore the difficulty of maintaining her obligations to family and friends while focusing her efforts on putting one foot in front of the other, every day. And after September 11, 2001, experience how Leslie’s goal to “hike her own hike” changes. A suburban college administrator, Leslie is just like any other woman you might pass on the grocery aisle. Her story is an inspiring physical and mental journey to reach the goal of a lifetime. The
Taxidermist's Son, by Ralph
Scherder, with a forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of "Pay
It Forward." Hardcover, 208 pages, $21.95 "A
great read... I wish I had written it." An Outdoorsman's Edge Book Club selection Read a review! Available from the author at www.RalphScherder.com.
The Taxidermist’s Son tells the real stories behind friends and families hunting in the great outdoors. There’s always one that got away; but Ralph makes it evident that what is truly important was right there with you, the whole time. |  |
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In
2000, inspired by her father, Leslie Mass decided she would turn a lifelong
fantasy into reality. At the age of 59 she began to train for a grueling
journey – a thru-hike of the 2,000-mile Appalachian Trail. In Beauty
May She Walk chronicles Leslie’s struggles and triumphs during her
hike.
Growing
up in western Pennsylvania, Ralph Scherder was attracted to the wild outdoors
from when he was young enough to wear Spider-Man snow boots. With his
father’s taxidermy shop located in the basement directly below his
bedroom, Ralph easily becomes familiar with every detail of the taxidermy
business. It didn’t take long for Ralph to discover that “Psycho”
wasn’t the best book on tape to listen to while working late at
night on dead animals. And the tragedy that befell their shop mouse, Skeeter,
will never be forgotten in the Scherder household.