In Beauty May She Walk: Hiking the Appalachian Trail at 60 - Hardcover

Mass, Leslie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0976568608 ISBN 13: 9780976568605

Verlag: Rock Spring Pr Inc, 2005

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Book by Mass Leslie

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Leslie struggles to balance her family's needs with her needs on the Appalachian Trail, and sheds years of social conditioning that dictate how a woman is expected to act.

Biografía del autor

Leslie Mass was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts but grew up in Stratford, Connecticut. She graduated from Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and received her Masters and Ph.D. in Early and Middle Childhood Education from Ohio State University. Leslie is actively involved with Wildside Adventures, a group that organizes and encourages women to go hiking. She co-leads a number of their backpacking trips.Leslie was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sheikhupura, West Pakistan from 1962-64, where she developed a community outreach program for women and young girls in twenty villages. She wrote about her hiking experiences so she might inspire other women to act on their dreams, to give them permission to do something just for themselves.Leslie and her husband, George, live on several wooded acres between Columbus and Delaware, Ohio. They have two grown daughters, Amy and Megg, and one grandson. In Beauty May She Walk is her first book.

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• Verlag: Rock Spring Pr Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0976568608
• ISBN 13: 9780976568605
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 408