Natchez Trace: Tracks in Time

by Andra Watkins

From March 1 to April 3, 2014, Andra Watkins walked the Natchez Trace, all 444-miles. How does a person fill the time when walking alongside a highway fifteen miles a day for thirty-four days? To stave off boredom and deflect pain, she took pictures. Of highway and sky. Of garbage. Of spring flowers. Of migrating birds. Of trees and fields and signs. Wheels grease the path for the traveller, blurring the details of a landscape. Honoring when Life moved at the speed of footsteps, she documented the minutiae of forgotten traces of Time. Whether one drives or cycles the Trace today, these images will ease a traveller into a deliberate pace. This photographic collection is a gift from the Natchez Trace.

134 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2015

About the author

New York Times Best Selling Author Andra Watkins lives in Charleston, South Carolina. A non-practicing CPA, she has a degree in accounting from Francis Marion University. She’s still mad at her mother for refusing to let her major in musical theater, because her mom was convinced she’d end up starring in porn films.
Andra is also an accomplished public speaker. Her acclaimed first novel To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis was published by Word Hermit Press in 2014. She writes about her experience as one of the first living persons to walk the Natchez Trace as the pioneers did in her memoir Not Without My Father: One Woman's 444-Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace, nominated for the National Book Award for Nonfiction, the Sarton Memoir Award, and the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Autobiographies and Memoirs. Her latest novel Hard to Die is nominated for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction. andrawatkins.com.

Reviews

[Louise Allen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the companion book to Andra Watkins' "Not without my father" and chronicles the pictures she took along the way. it's wonderful as "illustrations" for her book, but stands on its own as well.

[Sandy Vaseline · Rating 5 out of 5]

Terrific companion volume to the author's 444-Mile Walk book. Beautiful pictures and nice sequence that corresponds to the walk book. Worthwhile even if you haven't read the author, but like the Natchez Trace (which I do). Glossy paper would be nice with a hardcover edition.