{"product_id":"triolo-nicholas-the-way-arpb","title":"[10\/06\/26] Triolo, Nicholas: The Way Around","description":"\u003cp\u003eMilkweed Editions, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 6, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2026 Reading the West Award in Memoir \u0026amp; Biography\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Library of Congress Great Reads from Great Places Selection\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Smart, funny, wise of mind and vast of heart.\"--Robert Macfarlane, author of \u003ci\u003eIs A River Alive?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Way Around\u003c\/i\u003e is the kind of book my soul perpetually yearns for. It reshaped how I see the world.\"--Robert Moor, author of \u003ci\u003eOn Trails: An Exploration\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrowing up in northern California, in a family of high-achieving athletes, Nicholas Triolo was imbued with a particularly acute form of our intensely goal-oriented culture. \"Do the reps,\" he internalized. \"Commit to the work. Grind for your dreams.\" Shortly after graduating from college, he embarked on a solo circumnavigation of the globe. And then after returning to the States, he threw himself into ultrarunning, all to combat a deepening discontent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile traveling around the world, it was in Kathmandu that Triolo first encountered kora, a form of moving prayer in which pilgrims walk in circles around a sacred site or object--a kind of \"ritualized remembering\" birthed by place. Unable to shake this initial encounter with circumambulation, he sets out here on three such extended walks. First, he completes the sacred thirty-two-mile revolution around Tibet's Mount Kailash, in search of a cultural counter to Western linearity. Then, following his mother's diagnosis with breast cancer, he returns home to California and takes part in an annual circuit of Mount Tamalpais, tracing a route made famous by Beat poets Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Allen Ginsberg. And then finally, he meets up with a quirky hydrogeologist in Butte, Montana, and joins his walk around the Berkeley Pit Complex, the largest Superfund site in the country.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt once uncommonly humble and thrillingly transcendent, blurring the boundaries of inner and outer landscapes, \u003cem\u003eThe Way Around\u003c\/em\u003e models what it means to experience a true revolution of heart and home--for the flourishing of all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45361795301399,"sku":"9781639551392","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/812PmDk2r9L._SL1500.jpg?v=1786144994","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/triolo-nicholas-the-way-arpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}