Racing Light - the Soft Power of a Day's Walk

Racing Light tells about events which inspire us to surpass all expectations.

Four long hikes, 180 days, 9,886,500 footsteps, 12 pairs of shoes, 470 photographs, a glimpse of enlightenment, and a taste of immortality. Willdlife encounters, angels, demons, mean streets, and signs in the sky. Injury, illness, and healing.
All this began when Trica asked Charlie to walk her dog Stella. Nobody dreamed that he would later complete a solitary walk of the North American east coast. Nobody except, perhaps, for Stella. Find out what inspired this ordinary walker, and imagine your own dreams emerging, step by step.
Feel the exhilaration, the drudgery, and inevitability of this remarkable long walk, as presented in the Photo-Diary format specially developed for this book.

Charlie Duane works as a graphic artist. He studied under Harry Nadler at Wesleyan University and Mario Carmosino at Butera School of Art. His paintings and murals decorate the public halls of his New England town. He has written and illustrated over 70 articles, primarily for Signs of the Times magazine. Charlie's photographic study of the Milanese canals resides in the collection of the Biblioteca d Arte at the Sforza Castle in Milan, Italy, and the Raccolta Vinciana has published his research on Leonardo Da Vinci s ties to those canals. His photography of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial is preserved in the National Archives. The photographs were also purchased as gifts for Commission Senators, the White House, and the Royal House of the Netherlands. Charlie's supergraphics have decorated several America's Cup boats and many other large sailboats. His graphics for the Brown University womens racing shells were displayed by the Smithsonian Institution in New York.