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Ebook About Winner of the Nebraska Center for the Book Award, Travel • A Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award Notable Book • Honoree of the Society of Midland Authors Annual Literary Award for Biography/MemoirNow that President Donald Trump has revived the Keystone XL pipeline that was rejected by former President Obama, Trespassing Across America is the book to help us understand the kaleidoscopic significance of the project. Told with sincerity, humor, and wit, Ilgunas's story is both a fascinating account of one man’s remarkable journey along the pipeline's potential path and a meditation on climate change, the beauty of the natural world, and the extremes to which we can push ourselves—both physically and mentally. It started as a far-fetched idea—to hike the entire length of the proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline. But in the months that followed, it grew into something more for Ken Ilgunas. It became an irresistible adventure—an opportunity not only to draw attention to global warming but also to explore his personal limits. So in September 2012, he strapped on his backpack, stuck out his thumb on the interstate just north of Denver, and hitchhiked 1,500 miles to the Alberta tar sands. Once there, he turned around and began his 1,700-mile trek to the XL’s endpoint on the Gulf Coast of Texas, a journey he would complete entirely on foot, walking almost exclusively across private property.Both a travel memoir and a reflection on climate change, Trespassing Across America is filled with colorful characters, harrowing physical trials, and strange encounters with the weather, terrain, and animals of America’s plains. A tribute to the Great Plains and the people who live there, Ilgunas’s memoir grapples with difficult questions about our place in the world: What is our personal responsibility as stewards of the land? As members of a rapidly warming planet? As mere individuals up against something as powerful as the fossil fuel industry? Ultimately, Trespassing Across America is a call to embrace the belief that a life lived not half wild is a life only half lived. It's the perfect travelers gift for fans of Free Solo and Turn Right at Machu Picchu.Book Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland Review :
I have read a lot of books about people travelling across America. The author had a noble idea for this walk. At times the book was interesting, often he was just obnoxious! I have rarely had a book I couldn’t wait to finish and this was one of them. There were many things that bothered me about the author. First, he goes on these pages long rants about his opinions on topics which got boring. He spoke of those he didn’t have the same opinions with as not being tolerant, then he would proceed to trash them and have no tolerance for them. He seemed to have a great dislike for older people, as he seemed to know it all and they knew nothing. I just felt he was hypocritical throughout, judging people, worrying about charging his electronics, hitchiking to Canada, yet fighting to avoid fossil fuels and destroying the planet-hewanted the comforts, but at what cost? He seemed to feelhe had every right to trespass on people’s property. He also took great joy in the publicity, getting on tv, like he was doing this walk all about him and not for the environment. But the saddest thing was he put down ministers, Christians, and had a a difficult time with peoplewho believed in Jesus (mocking a minister who tried to convert him) yet he would go to churches first to find housing which was amazingly hypocritical-why did he go to a church and receive communion if he doesn’t believe? I am sad that I feel this way about the book, but I hope when the author grows up some, he will learn to truly love others, even those who don’t believe what he does. Love thy neighbor, don’t just trespass on his land for your own cause. At age 29, Ken Ilgounas—a so-so student, career hitchhiker, Alaska tour guide and drifter—suddenly saw the XL pipeline as “the perfect symbol of the twenty-first century. It was a war zone where environmentalists were pitted against industry, where the hopes for our future clashed with the habits of our past.”So he decided to hike the length of it—walk 1,195 miles from Hardisty, Alberta to Port Arthur, Texas. He has produced a truly brilliant kaleidoscopic portrait of America and our neighbor to the North. Here are unforgettable images, brushes with danger and death, and parade of motley characters. Many are salt of the earth. Others might be called Epsom salts.One of the many benefits you’ll gain—painlessly and pleasurably—from TRESPASSING ACROSS AMERICA is deep knowledge of energy, fossil fuels and climate change. When Ilgunas started out, he assumed he would be virulently disparaging of big oil. He writes:“Was I anti-oil? The tar sands and the Keystone XL struck me as a pretty terrible idea. But how could I be anti-oil when all of my gear, clothes and food were made with, made of, and transported by oil? I was wearing nylon pants and a polyester shirt, which were materials made from oil. Oil was in my pack, my shoes, my trekking poles. I’d originally wanted to travel the XL without using any oil. But where would I, for instance, get shoes that weren’t shipped with oil. How could I get food without any trace of oil? I could bring a rifle and hunt rabbits and deer, but what oil-run machine had cut the wood for the stock? What fuel ran the furnace that shaped the barrel? Where did the lead come from? Oil was everywhere and in everything.”Another gift Ken Ilgunas gives the reader is a slew of easy-to-understand quickie factoids that you can gleefully drop at dinner parties. For example:• I didn’t know this at the time, but there are 150,000 miles of oil pipelines in the United States alone. Add gas pipelines, and we have more than 1.7 million miles of pipes. These are our veiled veins, silently moving fossil fuels beneath the ground like blood beneath skin.• Currently, there are 1.4 billion cows on Earth whose farts make up the world’s largest source of methane, a greenhouse gas 105 times more potent than carbon dioxide. A 2006 United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report found that cows generate 18 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases—more than worldwide transportation.Cows were a big part of Ilgunas’ struggle with nature. He had to deal with thousands of cows in his footslog across the plains of two giant continents:“To me, cows were not docile bovine creatures that they were to most people, but, potentially a swarming herd of ill-tempered water buffalo that could fend off a pride of lions with their organ-rending horns and flank-to-flank formations. The very last thing I wanted was to end up on the news as the cultural spectacle of the latest person killed by an amiable animal in the once-every-few-years ‘Man killed by goat’ story.”Etched in your memory will be mental images of Ilgunas’ lurid descriptions of what oil exploration does to the ecosystem such as this $200 sightseeing flight he splurged on for an overview of Fort McMurray, Alberta.“But the autumnal wonderland came to an abrupt end as we approached and then passed over an enormous tailings pond—a lifeless gray sea of sludge, the liquid residue of the bitumen-to-oil refining process. The ponds, which are more accurately described as lakes, bore no sign of bird, wind ripple, or fish. They were still, silent, dead. And they were everywhere. After the refining process, the oil industry creates these giant man-made lakes to store all the toxic fluids. As of 2010, the tailings ponds covered about seventy square miles of northern Alberta, with some ponds as big as 7,500 acres, or half the size of Manhattan. Migrating ducks are known to rest on the ponds, and because the ponds have killed thousands of them, the oil industry had placed scarecrows (dubbed ‘bit-u-men’} wearing orange HAZMAT suits in the middle of them. Beyond the pond was one of the pits, a breathtaking mud crater that was of such breadth it almost stretched to the edge of the viewable earth.”Above all, you savor dozens of delicious cameo portraits of myriad characters—some wonderfully warm, others not so. One of my favorites:“When freezing, saturated, and exhausted, I got to Antlers, Oklahoma, (which boasts of being the Deer Capital of the World), I went straight to the local pizzeria and changed into my dry clothes in the bathroom before ordering myself a supreme pizza. A family with two little girls, who’d seen me come in, was curious what I was doing in Antlers. So they came over and asked. I told them tales of charging moose, stampeding cows, and crazy Nebraskan cops. I left out the dilapidated homes, crazy dogs, and strange men walking toward me at night, thinking that I had a good reason to remember the better side of Oklahoma. The girls posed for pictures with me, saying they were going to talk about my trip with their class, and the grandfather left ten dollars on the table, went to the register, and paid for my pizza.”In short, you will adore TRESPASSING ACROSS AMERICA as will everyone you recommend it to. 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