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A Walk Across America
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A Walk Across America (1979) (edit title/settings)

by Peter Jenkins (Author) (edit contributors)

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Twenty-five years ago, a disillusioned young man set out on a walk across America. This is the book he wrote about that journey -- a classic account of the reawakening of his faith in himself and his country. "I started out searching for myself and my country," Peter Jenkins writes, "and... read more

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  • “America had slowly opened it's heart and embraced me mile by mile, and family by family.”
    Peter Jenkins
  • “I had started out searching for myself and my country and found both. I had come face to face with God, and accepted Him as my own.”
    Peter Jenkins
  • “My soul had been like a wavering compass needle, but now it finally pointed to true north. I had found my lifetime direction. The salty breezes stroked me and I realized God was like the wind. I could feel him everywhere.”
    Peter Jenkins

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Stop right there, son.

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Acknowledgments
1. Talkin' By A Wood Stove
2. Mount California
3. Walking Into The Country
4. A New Nikon
5. Thanksgiving And Five Red Apples
6. Homer's Mountain
7. The Code
8. Fifteen Big-Man Burgers
9. Real High
10. The Dark Black Shadow
11. Delirious
12. Hanging Hill
13. Smokey Hollow
14. Lemm and Preacher
15. Sweet Milk, Booze And Lightning
16. The Pigpen
17. Locomotive's Coming!
18. Pau Pau
19. The Blue-Eyed Dane
20. The Farm
21. Down A Deer Trail
22. The Water Truck
23. TAA
24. Shelby County
25. "The Guv-Na"
26. Miss Margaret and M.C.
27. Mobile
28. The Revival
29. The Gulf of Mexico
30. Holding Hands
Afterword

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  1. Peter Jenkins (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1979
ISBN: 0688034276
Page Count: 288

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  • Library of Congress: E169.Z8 J37
  • Dewey: 917.3'04'9260924

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