The Long Walk

Living on Earth

Bill McKibben spent three weeks backpacking from Vermont to New York, and along the way, discovered the people who lived on the land had very different ways of life, depending on which side of Lake Champlain they lived. Host Steve Curwood talks with McKibben about his new book, “Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America’s Most Hopeful Landscape.”

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