At the Speed of Foot: Rez Dog on the Appalachian Trail is Mark Fleming's memoir of an adventure that grew from maybe to real in the three decades following his return from Vietnam. The narrative escorts the reader north along the Appalachian Trail in 2002, as Mark and two long-time hiking companions follow the 2,168 mile footpath from Georgia to Maine. Mark's spare prose vividly recounts the joy and wonder of life on the move and realistically describes...