Sat, Jun 15
|Santa Fe
Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Two friends, zero preparation, one dream. From the author of the beloved bestseller The Emerald Mile, a rollicking and poignant account of the epic misadventure of a 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of America’s most magnificent national park and the grandest wilderness on earth.
Date, Time & Location
Jun 15, 2024, 6:00 PM MDT
Santa Fe, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Kevin will be in conversation with New York Times best-selling author, Hampton Sides (The Wide Wide Sea.)
This will be an in-store event and will be live streamed to Zoom, register for Zoom here.
Purchase your copy of A Walk in the Park ($32.50, hardcover) from CW online here or by calling the store (505) 988-4226. Signed copies will be available after the event.
A few years after quitting his job to follow an ill-advised dream of becoming a guide on the Colorado River, Kevin Fedarko was approached by his best friend, the National Geographic photographer Pete McBride, with a vision as bold as it was harebrained. Together, they would embark on an end-to-end traverse of the Grand Canyon, a journey that, McBride promised, would be “a walk in the park.” Against his better judgment, Fedarko agreed to the scheme, unaware that the small cluster of experts who had completed…