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American Rambler: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed

byIsaac Fitzgerald

Isaac Fitzgerald sets out on foot through the landscapes associated with Johnny Appleseed, following both the historical man and the legend America made from him. The journey blends biography, travel writing, folklore, and memoir as Fitzgerald considers orchards, settlement, religion, masculinity, and his own desire to keep moving. Encounters along the route complicate the gentle frontier icon familiar from schoolbooks. The book becomes a searching exploration of how national myths are planted, revised, and inherited, and what a traveler can learn by walking through the places those stories still shape.

Publisher

Knopf

Publication date

2026-05-12

Format

Hardcover

Pages

352

ISBN

9780593537794