David Miller Audiobooks

AWOL on the Appalachian Trail: one very long walk, told mile by mile

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★ 4.4/5 average

8 listener ratings

Who is David Miller?

Long-distance walking has produced a literature of its own, and AWOL on the Appalachian Trail belongs squarely to it. Our catalogue shelves the book twice over, under sports and outdoors and under travel, which is the correct double filing for an account of a route that is at once an athletic undertaking and a very slow journey through a country.

What David Miller offers, on the evidence of the work, is the record rather than the argument. Trail writing at its best is a daily ledger: weather, feet, food, the people met at shelters, the arithmetic of distance. It is a form that rewards patience and honesty far more than drama, and it has quietly become the outdoor genre with the most devoted following.

David Miller in audiobooks

Ten and a half hours in the voice of Christopher Lane is close to the ideal measure for this sort of thing: long enough to feel like a season passing, short enough never to outstay the walk itself.

The title has been on listeners’ shelves for well over a decade now and holds a warm score, albeit from a modest number of verdicts. That longevity is its own recommendation, since walking books either become companions or vanish quietly, and this one has stayed.

Best taken in daily portions, ideally while moving. The listing is below.