Douglas Cook

Douglas Cook and his wife, the author Sally Stout, have been section hiking the Appalachian Trail since 2009. Having completed nearly 1,800 miles, they most recently summited Mt. Katahdin in Maine’s Baxter State Park and then hiked through the Hundred Mile Wilderness and lived to tell about it. His previous books include A Field Guide to the Birds of Tonga, and The N. J. Brewer Chronicles, as well as a couple of dozen short stories. An avid birder, backpacker and weaver, he and Sally live near the Lake Michigan shoreline in northwest lower Michigan.