Wandering: A Walker's Guide to the Mountain Trails of Europe

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An invitation to discover a free life-style, one of the few left in a cluttered world. Here's a guide to the pleasures of alpine wandering—clean air and pure water, violent sunsets, sunny meadows, and fireside songfests.
Wandering requires only that you be in reasonably good health and eager to undertake a personal journey, to reply primarily on your own senses. But you do need to know what you're doing—and this handbook will help you avoid trouble and get the most from your excursions. Ruth Rudner, a longtime captive of Wanderlust, tells what to pack in your rucksack, where to find your trails and what to expect on them, how to arrange for inexpensive food and lodging in the delightful huts that dot the mountainsides, who can help you along the way. There's even "Wandering for Cowards"!
Here are the special joys of solitary wandering, or, if you prefer, how to join a group or go with a friend. Fellow mountain lovers will be of every age, level of society, nationality.
The author's firsthand accounts of the walks cover Austria, France, Italy, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Greece, Norway, Sweden and Yugoslavia. Experiencing the exotic, the quaint, the exhilarating, the restorative awaits the willing vagabond and the armchair traveler alike. More than 70 photos provide a photographic diary of each tour.