The Appalachian Trail

National Geographic's 1972 love letter to the Appalachian Trail — 199 pages of Dick Durrance II's color photography alongside Ronald Fisher's account of the full 2,015-mile route from Maine to Georgia. The foreword is by Benton MacKaye, the trail's 93-year-old founder, which gives the book an unusual historical gravity. This is the trail as it looked and felt in the early 1970s: the era of the serious long-distance hiker, before the trail's modern infrastructure existed.

Dust jacket shows wear and some fading at the spine — the boards themselves are clean. The photographs inside are crisp and vivid. A time-capsule object for AT hikers, outdoor historians, and anyone drawn to the tradition of the long walk.