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A Walk in the Woods
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The funniest hiking book ever written.
Bill Bryson, out of shape and in his mid-forties, set out to hike the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail with an even less prepared old friend named Katz. What follows is a laugh-out-loud account of blisters, bears (mostly imagined) and trail characters, mixed with real history and a heartfelt case for protecting the woods. You don't have to be a hiker to love it, but if you are, you'll recognize every bad decision.
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How it reads
Easy read
Best for
- Hikers and backpackers
- Anyone who loves a funny travel story
- A gift for the outdoorsy
About this book
- Author
- Bill Bryson
- Publisher
- Broadway Books
- Published
- May 4, 1999
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN-10
- 0767902521
- ISBN-13
- 978-0767902526
Book description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The classic chronicle of a "terribly misguided and terribly funny" (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body
"The best way of escaping into nature."--The New York Times
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings.
For a start there's the gloriously out-of-shape Stephen Katz, a buddy from Iowa along for the walk. But A Walk in the Woods is more than just a laugh-out-loud hike. Bryson's acute eye is a wise witness to this beautiful but fragile trail, and as he tells its fascinating history, he makes a moving plea for the conservation of America's last great wilderness. An adventure, a comedy, and a celebration, A Walk in the Woods is a modern classic of travel literature.
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About the author
Bill Bryson's bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (which won the Aventis Prize in Britain and the Descartes Prize, the European Union's highest literary award). He was chancellor of Durham University, England's third oldest university, from 2005 to 2011, and is an honorary fellow of Britain's Royal Society.
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