Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets Takoma welcomes Ken Ilgunas to present the new book Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland.
Until this past November, communities from Alberta to Texas were facing major changes due to their proximity to the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline. To see what the project might mean to everyone living along the route—people as well as wildlife—Ilgunas, an inveterate hitchhiker, paddler, professional Arctic back-country ranger, Alaska tour guide, and author of Walden on Wheels, hiked the entire 1,500 miles the pipeline would have run from Denver to the Alberta tar sands. Once there, he turned around and hitched 1,700 miles to the Texas Gulf Coast. Filled with vivid scenes of fellow travelers, natural beauty, the effects of climate change, and much more, Ilgunas’s book documents a crucial moment in the history of human impact on the environment.
