Following Atticus: Forty-eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship
&#8220;Exceptionally evocative writing and [an] engaging story . . . this is a book that can be read more than once. Inspirational and heart-warming.&#8221; (Library Journal)&#8220;Lyrical. . . . rivetingly portrayed . . . [a] touching chronicle.&#8221; (Kirkus Reviews)&#8220;Heartwarming, surprisingly suspenseful. . . . Part adventure story, part memoir, but most important, a love story . . . [an] entertaining and joyous book.&#8221; (Publishers Weekly)&#8220;How can you go wrong with a cute little dog who braved the White Mountains&#8217; highest peaks time and again&#8230;over the ice, snow and sometimes deadly uncertainty of wild winter altitude in New Hampshire? Far more than just a typical man&#150;and&#150;his&#150;dog account&#8230;Ryan and Atticus have delivered on all counts.&#8221; (Manchester Union Leader)&#8220;Need your faith in humanity restored? Read this book. It&#8217;s lovely to learn about our higher selves from an unlikely source like Atticus M. Finch.&#8221; (The Day (Connecticut))&#8220;Not your standard mountain adventure book. . . . Reading Following Atticus can feel like taking a long walk, or a series of walks, with a great storyteller. Why &#8216;follow Atticus?&#8217; Because, [Ryan says], &#8216;Dogs, like mountains, bring you back to yourself.&#8217;&#8221; (AMC Outdoors)#2 New England Bestseller List (NEIBA)&#8220;Ryan . . . is an engaging storyteller whose humorous, self-deprecating descriptions evoke Bill Bryson&#8217;s A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering American on the Appalachian Trail and John Steinbeck&#8217;s Travels with Charley: In Search of America.&#8221; (Appalachia)#5 Boston Globe bestseller (Boston Globe)