Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

by Heather Anish Anderson

Book Overview

National Geographic 2019 Adventurer of the Year
Named a Backpacker Magazine "50 Best Hiking Books of All Time"

"Beautiful and deftly written and intimate and searing in its honesty, Anish's is a quest to conquer the trail and her own inner darkness."-Foreword Reviews
"Filled with ruminative self-reflection, soaring natural descriptions and delightful accounts of the gracious, life-sustaining 'trail magic' of hiking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1680512366
• ISBN13: 9781680512366
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Great read

Loved reading her story, couldn’t put it down

Better than I expected.

I knew this was a story about a Fastest Known Time attempt of the PCT. So, I expected a dry report full of numbers and times, by a conceded athlete boasting about their new record. And there is discussion of distances and times, but there is also a really good story. Thru-hiking is about the struggle...that never ends. This is a good description of that, and one of the better ones written. Would have loved to have gotten more on some of the background stories.

We get it. You were thirsty.

There's no doubt that Anish has accomplished more than most of us will in a life time. I wanted to like this book - to follow a literary journey through the depths of her soul. But the "thirst" emphasis was so repetitive, that it brought me right out of the book. Seldom do I leave a book unfinished, but I can't make myself reach the end of this one. While there are beautiful moments that bring readers to the PCT, they're quickly overshadowed by poor editorial decisions.