Karen Berger

Comments and Reviews

"Stunning. Terrific. It's the holiday season's must-buy book for anyone with the remotest interest in hiking or backpacking. Authors Karen Berger and Daniel Smith's text... conveys in fine style the sense of hiking for five months and 2,650 miles. It's a perfect match of text and photographs." -- Tacoma Herald.

"Gorgeous... What I love about this mountain trek from Mexico to Canada is the ability of author Karen Berger to state the obvious ("the trick, of course, is not to fall") and frankly huff and puff toward some of the most "stupendously beautiful" scenes ever to hit the eyeballs of John Muir. Her account, with breath-taking color photos by Bart Smith and you-are-there journal entries by Daniel Smith, is the perfect antidote to that pokey slacker Bill Bryson, who whines his way through "A Walk in the Woods" but gives a patchy account (by comparison) of the Appalachian Trail on his side of the continent." -- Pat Holt, former San Francisco Chronicle reviewer, in "Holt Uncensored."

"What's not to like?... Boasts more than 100 mouth-watering photos, snappy, real-life-grit-and-sweat-narrative, and production quality that'll do your coffee table proud." -- Backpacker Magazine.

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