Walk With Me: The Story of One Mans Life with Muscular Degeneration and His 1,700-Mile Walk Through California
by Martin McCorkle
Category: Biography & Autobiography

Wilderness adventure books are popular, for good reason. But some of the world's most heart-pounding and heart-rending stories don't involve super-fit athletes scaling Tibet's highest mountains, enduring Antarctica's cold or the like. Sometimes the most compelling adventures involve people like you and me-or like Martin McCorkle, a man with a genetic disability that shouldn't allow him to even enter the wilderness, much less master it and survive to tell the tale. This is a beautiful book, more full of real life, personality, and the romance of the outdoors than many a best-seller about climbing Everest or leading famous voyages of exploration. I've read those books. They were exciting, but this book captured my heart.