'Trespassing Across America' will take you on a powerful, 1,700-mile journey
 

'Trespassing Across America' will take you on a powerful, 1,700-mile journey
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"To travel alone, I'd learned, isn't to rely on yourself. To travel alone is to force yourself to depend on others. It is to fall in love with mankind."

So writes author and environmentalist Ken Ilgunas in his book Trespassing Across America. In it, Ilgunas documents his 146-day, 1,700-mile journey hiking the route of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.

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But Ilgunas's hike is more than just about the love of travel. His journey was inspired by a mixture of personal existentialism (the kind that comes from being an adventurer who finds himself stuck washing dishes in Alaska) and part advocacy about global warming.*As Ilgunas travels the distance of the Keystone XL pipeline — *from Alberta, Canada to Port Arthur, Texas — he explores America's oil dependency, the history of the American landscape and just what the pipeline means for the communities and ecosystems it is routed to bisect. Read more...


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