The Way Around: A Field Guide to Going Nowhere

Now in Paperback!“Smart, funny, wise of mind and vast of heart.”-Robert Macfarlane, author of Is A River Alive?“The Way Around is the kind of book my soul perpetually yearns for.It reshaped how I see the world.”-Robert Moor, author of On Trails: An ExplorationGrowing up in northern California, in a family of high-achieving athletes, Nicholas Triolo was imbued with a particularly acute form of our intensely goal-oriented culture. “Do the reps,” he internalized. “Commit to the work. Grind for your dreams.” Shortly after graduating from college, he embarked on a solo circumnavigation of the globe. And then after returning to the States, he threw himself into ultrarunning, all to combat a deepening discontent. While traveling around the world, it was in Kathmandu that Triolo first encountered kora, a form of moving prayer in which pilgrims walk in circles around a sacred site or object-a kind of “ritualized remembering” birthed by place.Unable to shake this initial encounter with circumamb