A Walk Along Land's End: Dispatches from the Edge of California on a 1,600-mile hike from Mexico to Oregon

A saga, a celebration, a comedy and a lament, this narrative ranks with the classics of California travel literature. The intrepid hiker’s acute eye notes the heartbreaking beauty, colorful characters and jarring contradictions found on the shore of the sundown sea.

Commissioned by the California Coastal Trails Foundation to map out a continuous trail along the Golden State’s coastline and through coastal mountains, John McKinney, The Trailmaster, walked from the Mexican border all the way t...