The Roamers Book Club

Oct 13 2023 21 ep. 49 mins
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A book club for those full of wanderlust, the ramblers, the globetrotters, and the wayfarers. Each month Christine and Kyle read and discuss an adventure book that they hope will inspire courage and adventure in their own lives and the lives of their listeners.

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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

Oct 13 2023 56 mins  
In 1995 travel writer Bill Bryson was living in the United States after residing in England for over twenty years and longed to reconnect with the country he once knew. Despite having little knowledge of hiking, camping, or the great outdoors he decided that an adventure on the 2,200 mile Appalachian Trail would be the best way to reacquaint himself with America. Not to be outdone

Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer

Apr 18 2023 55 mins  
In 1996 author Jon Krakauer joined a Mount Everest expedition to document the recent commercialization of the world's highest peak. As an experienced alpinist, Krakauer understood the inherent dangers of climbing at extreme altitudes, but nothing could have prepared him for the events that unfolded on May 10-11, resulting in one of the deadliest days in the history of Everest. Into

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King

Jan 09 2023 42 mins  
Have you ever been lost in the woods? Did you immediately ball up in the fetal position and scream for help? Stephen King's, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon follows the story of Tricia McFarland, a nine year old girl who is lost in the woods with very few supplies and little water. Her only contact with the outside world is through her Walkman which is tuned into the Boston Red Sox a

The White Heart of Mojave by Edna Brush Perkins

Sep 02 2022 54 mins  
After a long fight on the front lines of the women's suffrage movement Edna Brush Perkins and her friend Charlotte Jordan needed a vacation so they did what anyone would do to unwind and traveled for a month in one of the most inhospitable places on earth- Death Valley. At the time it was unheard of for anyone to go to the Mojave Desert for a vacation let alone two cosmopolitan wom

Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France by Adin Dobkin

May 09 2022 63 mins  
The Roamers dive into the book Sprinting Through No Man's Land by Adin Dobkin who painstakingly chronicled the journey of the 1919 Tour de France cyclists many of whom had recently completed service in World War I. The ink on the Treaty at Versailles had barely dried when the riders took off on a route around the country's border. Most of the competitors lacked the fitness, resourc

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Feb 04 2022 52 mins  
The Roamers discuss Cheryl Strayed's book Wild which was adapted into the film of the same name staring Reese Witherspoon. In 1995 Strayed set out on the Pacific Crest Trail to traverse 1,100 miles of the California and Oregon wilderness on foot while escaping the life she left behind. Prior to embarking on her hike Strayed was stricken with suffering and grief after the death of h

Lost in the Jungle by Yossi Ghinsberg

Nov 27 2021 59 mins  
Christine and Kyle read Lost in the Jungle by Yossi Ghinsberg which chronicles the time that Ghinsberg........got lost in the jungle. In 1981 he and three other backpackers tromped into the Amazon jungle of Bolivia hoping to make contact with a legendary indigenous village and strike it rich by finding a mother lode of gold. They were armed with a shot gun, machete and the hubris o

Riding On - A Shake the Sleeping Self follow up

Aug 06 2021 29 mins  
The book club revisits Jedediah Jenkins book, To Shake the Sleeping Self by talking to some long distance cyclists about what they're experiences on the road and what they've learned from being on the bike.

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

Jul 25 2021 57 mins  
For two years in the 1950's Edward Abbey worked as a park ranger in Arches National Park (then monument) spending most of his time alone, contemplating the desert environment, humans relationship to nature, and conspiracy theories! After it was published in 1968 Desert Solitaire became an influential piece of literature for the contemporary environmental movement of the 1970's. Chr

Further Downstream - An interview with rafting expert Seth Peterson

Jul 14 2021 28 mins  
As a follow up to Running the Amazon by Joe Kane, Christine interviewed her younger brother Seth Peterson who is a highly skilled whitewater rafting and kayaking guide in the Pacific Northwest.