Tales From the Appalachians to the Apennines

A splendid collection of larger-than-life tales, this volume contains 21 short stories taken across several decades of travel and adventure. Beginning in the mountains of Western North Carolina, we join the author as he hitchhikes in the Southeastern US, visits the Amazon rainforest of South America, eats a medieval meal in Spain, and visits an ancient monastery in the Apennine Mountains of Italy, to name a few. At times humorous, informative, poignant, and absurd, these stories are personal accounts of a life well-lived, in which truth often was stranger than fiction. Peaks and valleys included!