John Turner Reads "Killing the Buddha on the Appalachian Trail"
Schedule
Sun, 30 Mar, 2025 at 04:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
1447 Church St, Decatur, GA, United States, Georgia 30030 | Decatur, GA
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The allure of the Appalachian Trail has drawn hikers from all around the world to walk its 2,197 miles from Georgia to Maine. In Killing the Buddha on the Appalachian Trail, John Turner hikes through those rugged miles, narrating a journey that begins in the forested southern mountains but also delves into the history of the trail, its geology, its unique hiker culture, and the hazards, physical demands, and glories of beautiful landscapes.The journey also takes us to unexpected places - to Africa in the aftermath of a terrible war, into philosophical exploration about the ethics of hiking, and into the author's own inner turmoil as he struggles with past failures. We meet characters as varied, brave, and determined as any cast of a Broadway musical, each of them contending with the challenge of climbing steep mountains day after day through rain, mud, cold, and heat. We walk alongside Turner to experience the daily hardships, the milestones, the hike-ending accidents, and the little victories along the trail. Turner guides us to Katahdin through a background of Buddhist teaching that gives meaning to the fellowship, solitude, suffering, and ultimate triumph of the men and women who seek to hike the Appalachian Trail.
John Turner is a member of the Georgia Appalachian Trail club board of directors, a trail ambassador, a maintainer of a short section of the Appalachian Trail, and editor of the club's flagship publication, the Georgia Mountaineer quarterly. Turner began his career in journalism as a reporter first for the Macon Telegraph and then the Atlanta Journal Constitution. He lives, writes, and hikes in the mountains of north Georgia and beyond.
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