Hiker’s Bookshelf: Trespassing Across America: One Man’s Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland
Trespassing is a highly-entertaining narrative of Ken Ilgunas's 1,900 mile-long hike along the planned route of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Ilgunas had grown tired of washing dishes for oil workers near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, and was concerned with the XL's potential (and highly debated) impact on the environment. More, Ilgunas was interested in the bigger picture that the XL might exemplify: an addiction to cheap oil, without regard to what the Pipeline might mean for the environment (as well as how the XL might symbolize a broader systemic indifference to the...