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99% Invisible
The host highlighted the title as an excellent guide to trails and strongly recommended it, praising its lovely writing and meticulous detail. He noted that the author explored fundamental questions about what a trail is and how it evolves, even mentioning intriguing examples like slime mold. Overall, the discussion conveyed enthusiasm for the book’s insightful and engaging treatment of trail concepts.
Episode: Trail Mix: Track Two
The book was highlighted as an excellent guide to trails and was strongly recommended by the host.
Robert wrote an excellent book called On Trails I cannot recommend it highly enough.
you write in your book that the Appalachian Trail like it really started as this radical idea It was the first really long trail in the US
Episode: Trail Mix
Robert Moore's book, "On Trails", was described as having lovely writing and an amazing attention to detail. It delves into fundamental questions about trails, including what a trail even is and how it evolves over time.
I first read Robert Moore's book On Trails when it came out back in 2017 and I was immediately pulled in, not just by the writing, which is lovely by the way, but also by Robert's attention to detail.
And I think that the key aspect of a trail is that a trail is a line that evolves. It's something that we follow where each time you walk you're leaving a slight bit of yourself behind and the next person who comes picks up on those signals that you're leaving and they leave their own signals. And over time it keeps changing subtly.
One of the most fascinating parts of On Trails is about a single-celled organism called slime mold.
Episode: Trail Mix
Robert Moore's book On Trails was described as having lovely writing and an amazing attention to detail. It was said to drill down into the smallest, most elemental questions about trails, including what a trail even is.
I first read Robert Moore's book On Trails when it came out back in 2017 and I was immediately pulled in, not just by the writing, which is lovely by the way, but also by Robert's attention to detail.
He has this amazing way of drilling down into some of the smallest, most elemental questions about trails, including possibly the most fundamental question of all. What even is a trail?