A Road Running Southward: Wild Read Book Discussion

This winter, we are reading A Road Running Southward: Following John Muir's Journey through an Endangered Land by Dan Chapman. 

Dan Chapman is a writer, reporter, an FWS author, and passionate about the outdoors. He's a backcountry camper who travelled in Muir's footsteps along this 1000 mile journey. Dan Chapman has worked for Congressional Quarterly, The Winston-Salem Journal, The Charlotte Observer, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has also reported from Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. He currently writes stories about conservation in the South for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. A Road Running Southward is his first published book! 

John Muir, also known as "Father of the National Parks", was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, botanist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States of America. In 1867, Muir took a hike across the South and this trip was one of his first treks that made him an enduring face of the environmental movement. Just 150 years later, Dan Chapman set off to recreate Muir's journey. Chapman argues, there is no other thousand mile walk that covers such richness of flora and fauna and no other place that tally as many species at risk of extinction. Through his book, we understand how our choices shape our lands for years to come. 

It is an informal book club-like atmosphere where we reflect on the reading, answer discussion questions, and enjoy some time together through a conversation on conservation literature.