Like a modern Thoreau, Clabough (English, Lynchburg College) has gone into the wilderness to find himself and America's past on the Appalachian Trail. This book is part travelogue, part memoir and part history lesson. Clabough's writing flows like the rivers he crosses and follows in his journey. A gentle, introspective book, the sort one might keep on hand to dip into when contemporary life grates too harshly. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)