The Great Alone

Walking the Pacific Crest Trail

De: Tim Voors

Narrado por: B. J. Genten

Time is precious. The world is waiting. Rediscover yourself. The Great Alone is the epic adventure of a relatable explorer.

Why does a 44-year-old father leave his family for six months to walk 4,286 km across America on the Pacific Crest Trail? What effect does it have on his marriage? on his children? and on himself? Following his ­intuition, Tim Voors decided to embark on a life-changing hike, feeling alive, being afraid, pushing through pain, confronting emptiness and starting a passionate romance with the wilderness.

Tim Voors takes us through the physical, mental and spiritual journey he experienced on this epic hike. Climb into his backpack as he takes you through deserts, mountains, forests and raging rivers, where he forges magical friendships, rediscovers who he used to be, and implements those lessons on returning home.

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I enjoyed listening to this!

The use of AI was ok. But, AI narration doesn’t capture the story at its fullest potential. Otherwise, I enjoyed the storytelling of this epic adventure and the keen insight of a thru hike of one of Americas beautiful long trails.

Not Bad

Pretty good for a through hiking book. Better than many on the subject. Interesting to hear about the trek from a foreigner’s stand point. Tim seems to be someone you’d like to share the trail with. I enjoyed it.

The nitty-gritty of the PCT

This book is focused largely on the day-to-day details of life hiking the PCT. The reader gets a full view of what this is really like. And enough details about relationships on the trail and some background of the author’s life flesh out the human stories involved. I would highly recommend it to anyone thinking about hiking the PCT, or to those armchair hikers who would like to experience the trail vicariously. Highly recommended.

3.5 Always amaze me the PCT hikers stories.

This is worth to listen, you might learn something practical for your life. Nothing like do it yourself,but if you cannot. Listen to the ones they made from Mexico to Canada.

Freedom

Great adventure. I like how he marked the chapters with miles. His honesty about the trail. The ending with goals.

Awful narration

I trudged through this book but it was hard. That narrator was stiff, jerky and seemed like he was trying to imitate how someone from how Netherlands would speak (but not well done). The author was opinionated and a little preachy. I was quite disappointed in this book overall.

Too much back story and psycho babble.

I could barely make it through this book with all the side tracks and back story. I wanted a book about the trail not all about his personal feelings.