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Audie Award Finalist for best inspirational book!

Under siege from relentless stage 4 cancer and after losing her right lung, Edie Littlefield Sundby undertook a healing 1,600-mile walk along the El Camino Real de las Californias mission trail through the mountain wilderness of Baja Mexico and the Sonoran Desert to Northern California.

She experienced desert heat and cold, walls of cactus, sleeplessness, hunger, both physical and spiritual exhaustion, the dangers of wild creatures, and encounters with drug smugglers – and weeks with no water other than what a pack mule could carry.

“The Mission Walker” is her first-hand account of the experience and struggles she endured, and the inspiration drawn from the old unmapped Spanish mission trail.

Her story is both an adventure story and a reflection on the universal experience of confronting our own mortality. It is a story of what we will do when faced with the potential end of our life. What do we do with our time left on earth. And how much do we still really, truly want to live.

“The Mission Walker” cites more than 50 original historical sources, and the author’s story captures the untamed wilderness adventure experienced for centuries along the old Jesuit and Franciscan mission trail that unites Alta and Baja California and defines the Old West.