pUnique among Appalachian Trail books, iBreakfast with Salamandersi records an eleven-year adventure hiking the entire Trail by sections, in trips ranging from overnights to weeks at a time. Organized by seasons, it looks back to the great tradition in American nature writing running from Thoreau's iWaldeni through Leopold's iSand County Almanaci and Abbey's iDesert Solitairei. Deeply and quietly informed by a Zen Buddhist sensibility and, in later chapters, interspersed with original poems in haiku form, it also evokes Bash333's iNarrow Road to the Deep Northi. A book to read in quiet hours or, tucked into a backpack, on the trail. pThis is a book for the experienced AT hiker-and for the casual saunterer in the woods. It's a book for hikers who like to know the names of things, flora, and fauna-and for walkers who take a simple pleasure in putting one foot in front of the other. The author knows birds and their calls, flowers and their habitat, and the qualities of different kinds of