Body and Grace

A Woman's Hike to Wholeness on the Pacific Crest Trail

Published by Mantra Books
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
LIST PRICE $18.95

About The Book

After losing her husband, a transformational 2650-mile hike helps the author find wholeness

After losing her husband, a transformational 2650-mile hike helps the author find wholeness. Body and Grace follows this author's journey over a period of 10 years to completion of the Pacific Crest Trail. The reader will travel through snowfields, deserts, and fires, as well as nights alone in the woods, getting lost, and finding beauty that transcends. The inner journey of becoming whole after the loss of her life partner is woven through these trail stories.

About The Author

Dami Roelse was born and raised in Holland. She has traveled the world extensively, lived on different continents and studied with different spiritual teachers. Dami has used her passion for long distance hiking and backpacking as a means to deepen her connection with nature and the universe. Her inner spiritual journey has evolved right along with her outer journey.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Mantra Books (April 7, 2026)
  • Length: 192 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781782797074

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In the great tradition of the legendary literary walkers - Thoreau, Wordsworth, Dickens - and the spirit and soul of John Muir and Robert Macfarlane, comes this wonderful book of contemplative wonder. To walk, to hike is miraculously human, but in the hands of Dami Roelse, the journey becomes not only poetic and transcendent, but divine. Dami is a keen observer of the world and of the self, and through this combination delivers a story of personal discovery that will change how you move in the world. 

David W. Berner, journalist, broadcaster, and author of several books including the memoir Any Road Will Take You There

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