The Way Around

“This is the kind of book my soul perpetually yearns for: a ravenously curious, fiercely big-hearted exploration of a topic as vast as the cosmos and as small as a city block. It reshaped how I see the world.”—Robert Moor, author of On Trails: An Exploration “You can’t read this book from left to right—instead you’ll swirl through, dervish-like. Trust Nicholas Triolo—his gorgeous, clear-eyed words and hard-earned footfalls—with every hair on your head. He’s done the good hard work here, stacking cairns along the trail’s curvature, seeking direction from monks and poets. He’s more than just following their lead, though. He slogs through mud, suffers blisters—but the whole route courses through atrium and ventricle. I’d follow this writer anywhere, for he’s gone to the place where we began, where we can begin again. The Way Around is the rarest and truest kind of adventure tale: the kind that can reclaim us from our lost, all-too-linear selves.”—Amy Irvine, author of Desert Cabal “I read in constant search of books like The Way Around, a debut of striking originality and singular contact with landscape. In a richly conceived act of gracious yet feral resistance, author/guide/contemplative Nick Triolo takes what the great Nan Shepherd called the ‘unpath’ around the mountain and returns to the everyday world with a story of renewed collective calling and urgently needed hope.”—Chris Dombrowski, author of The River You Touch