When You Find My Body, D. Dauphinee
When You Find My Body, D. Dauphinee
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When You Find My Body
The Disappearance of Geraldine Largay on the Appalachian Trail

Author: D. Dauphinee

Narrator: Traci Odom

Unabridged: 6 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/25/2019


Synopsis

When Geraldine "Gerry" Largay first went missing on the Appalachian Trail in remote western Maine in 2013, the people of Maine were wrought with concern. When she was not found, the family, the wardens, and the Navy personnel who searched for her were devastated. The Maine Warden Service continued to follow leads for more than a year. They never completely gave up the search. Two years after her disappearance, her bones and scattered possessions were found by chance by two surveyors. She was on the U.S. Navy's SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) School land, about 2,100 feet from the Appalachian Trail.

This book tells the story of events preceding Geraldine Largay's vanishing in July 2013, while hiking the Appalachian Trail in Maine, what caused her to go astray, and the massive search and rescue operation that followed. Her disappearance sparked the largest lost-person search in Maine history, which culminated in her being presumed dead. She was never again seen alive. The author was one of the hundreds of volunteers who searched for her. Gerry's story is one of heartbreak, most assuredly, but is also one of perseverance, determination, and faith. For her family and the searchers, especially the Maine Warden Service, it is also a story of grave sorrow.

About D. Dauphinee

D. Dauphinee has been a mountaineering, fly fishing, and back-country guide for over thirty years and has participated with several search and rescue organizations. He has led many expeditions, including mountain, jungle, or desert treks on four continents. Twice he orienteered (without the benefit of a GPS) across the Isthmus of Panama. In addition, he has four first-ascents on mountains, has hiked the Negev Desert at its widest part, and has climbed above 20,000 feet thirteen times.

A former UPI photographer, he is now a full-time writer and has published books on fly-fishing and travel. He has also written numerous essays and articles about fly fishing, climbing, and life for many newspapers and magazines. He lives in Bradley, Maine.


Reviews

Goodreads review by jv on August 24, 2022

My feelings are undoubtedly affected by my confused frustration whenever someone is forever lost in the wild (in the U.S.). It seems to always be presented as a unique circumstance, where sure, mistakes were made, but it's never anyone's fault. There seems to be a recurring theme of different agenci......more

Goodreads review by Valerity (Val) on April 14, 2019

Gerry Largay had a dream to hike the Appalachian Trail and at age sixty-six she was thrilled to finally be doing it. She’d started out hiking with her good friend Jane Lee, and Gerry’s husband George served as support crew. Part way through the journey Jane had a family emergency and had to return h......more

Goodreads review by Linda on June 01, 2019

Geraldine Largay hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2013. That's where she disappeared. She was presumed dead after a year of searches produced no body, no clues to what happened. This case became the largest lost-person search in Maine history. Two years after her disappearance , her bones and scattered......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on June 06, 2023

One of the local AT thru hikers, AKA Blueberry, mentioned that she read this book in one day. It took me two days complete, the same as my wife who read it immediately after I did. The book is well phrased, and the author has the credentials to do a thorough job of bring the story forward. I recomme......more

Goodreads review by Jill on June 10, 2021

The tragic story of a woman solo-hiking the Appalachian Trail who left the trail to pee and whose body wasn't found for more than two years. I found the structure of the book plodding at times. The author spends a lot of words on extraneous details such as the personal lives of rescue personnel, the......more