Description
Book SynopsisIn 2017, professional runner Rickey Gates ran 3,700 miles across the continental United States with just a small backpack and an anthropologist''s curiosity to discover the divided America in which we live. In the book
Cross Country, Gates documents this epic experience from South Carolina to San Francisco, sharing
first-person essays, interviews, and over 200 photographs of the ordinary and extraordinary people and places he saw along the way.
While Gates delivers unparalleled insight into the extreme athletic and mental challenge of this transcontinental run, running is not the core focus of
Cross Country—it is a story of the remarkable people across the United States who we would otherwise never meet.
• A photographic travelogue that follows along Rickey Gates''s run across the country, and the individuals who live in it
• Filled with portraits, landscapes, and collages of towns and communities that most people hav
