A good book to read. Ellis shares just a bit of his own personal history but more of his immediate actions & responses to the people and nature he encounters on his walk from Tahlequah, OK to New Echota, GA. He is mostly encouraged by the helpfulness of strangers he meets along the way. His search for his connection with the Aniyun'Wiya (Cherokee) loses some of its power when the reader realizes he follows this book with one on his retracing the Pony Express Trail. He gives little pieces of events from the historical expulsion of the Cherokee from their homelands, so it helps if you've heard of the history before. There is a brief reference list cited at the end. ( )

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