Following Atticus
Forty-eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · August 7, 2012
Set against the backdrop of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, a man and a dog embark on the challenge of a lifetime in this true story of love, loss, and the resilience of the human and animal spirit.
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- Who it’s for
- A winter climbing challenge becomes a moving account of friendship between a man and his dog.
- Themes
- Adventure and mountaineering, Human-animal friendship, Love, loss, and resilience
- Genres
- Personal Memoirs, Dogs, Adventurers & Explorers
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Set against the backdrop of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, a man and a dog embark on the challenge of a lifetime in this true story of love, loss, and the resilience of the human and animal spirit. After a close friend died of cancer, middle-aged, overweight, acrophobic newspaperman Tom Ryan decided to pay tribute to her in a most unorthodox manner.
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Ryan and his friend, miniature schnauzer Atticus M. Finch, would attempt to climb all forty-eight of New Hampshire’s four-thousand-foot peaks twice in one winter while raising money for charity. It was an adventure of a lifetime, leading them across hundreds of miles and deep into an enchanting but dangerous winter wonderland. At the heart of the amazing journey was the extraordinary relationship they shared, one that blurred the line between man and dog. Following Atticus is an unforgettable true saga of adventure, friendship, and the unlikeliest of family, as one remarkable animal opens the eyes and heart of a tough-as-nails newspaperman to the world’s beauty and its possibilities.
A Bond in Motion
A winter climbing challenge becomes a moving account of friendship between a man and his dog.
Come here for
- White Mountains adventure with real risk and rough weather
- A tribute shaped by love, loss, and charity
Expect
- A true story centered on an extraordinary man-and-dog bond
- Reflection on resilience, beauty, and possibility
Where it sits
| Adventurers & Explorers | 59% |
|---|---|
| Dogs | 59% |
| Personal Memoirs | 45% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Women's Lives
- Personal Memoirs
- New England History
- The Americas History
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- Women's History
- Animals
- Dogs
- Training Your Dog
- Authors
- Tom Ryan
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- August 7, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Adventure and mountaineering · Human-animal friendship · Love, loss, and resilience
- Reading lane
- Women's Lives