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A Walk in the Woods: Abridged CD

Bill Bryson has made a living out of travelling and then writing about it. In The Lost Continent he re-created the road trips of his childhood; in Neither Here nor There he retraced the route he followed as a young backpacker traversing Europe. When this American transplant to Britain decided to return home, he made a farewell walking tour of the British countryside and produced Notes from a Small Island. Once back on American soil and safely settled in New Hampshire, Bryson once again hears the siren call of the open road--only this time it's a trail. The Appalachian Trail, to be exact. In A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson tackles what is, for him, an entirely new subject: the American wilderness. Accompanied only by his old college friend Stephen Katz, Bryson starts out one March morning in north Georgia, intending to walk the entire 2,100 miles to the trail's end atop Maine's Mount Katahdin. If nothing else, A Walk in the Woods is proof positive that the journey is the destination. As Bryson and Katz haul their out-of-shape, middle-aged bodies over hill and dale, the reader is treated to both a very funny personal memoir and a delightful chronicle of the trail, the people who created it, and the places it passes through. Whether you plan to make a trip like this one yourself one day or only care to read about it, A Walk in the Woods is a great way to spend an afternoon. --Alix WilberRead More

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    The longest continuous footpath in the world the Appalachian Trail stretches along the East Coast of the United States from Georgia to Maine through some of the most arresting and celebrated landscapes in America. At the age of forty-four in the company of his friend Stephen Katz (last seen in the bestselling Neither Here nor There) Bill Bryson set off to hike through the vast tangled woods which have been frightening sensible people for three hundred years. Facing bears bobcats savage weather disease-bearing tics poisonous plants and the odd chuckling murderer Bryson gamely struggled through the wilderness to achieve a lifetime's ambition - not to die outdoors. ; ; Kerry Shale has performed his acclaimed solo show The Prince of West End Avenue in the UK Europe South Africa Australia New Zealand and the United States. Other stage work includes plays such as The Normal Heart True West and Disappeared. TV work includes Sharpe Cracker and Tales of Narnia. His films include Yentl RKO 281 and 102 Dalmations. Kerry has abridged and read Bill Bryson's The Lost Continent A Walk in the Woods Notes from a Small Island Notes from a Big Country and Down Under. He has received three Sony Awards for radio acting and writing.

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    The Appalachian Trail covers 14 states, and over 2,000 miles. It stretches along the East Coast of the United States, from Maine in the north to Georgia in the south. It is famous for being the longest continuous footpath in the world.

  • 0552152153
  • 9780552152150
  • Bill Bryson
  • 17 May 2004
  • Corgi Audio
  • Audio CD (CD)
  • Abridged edition
  • Abridged, Audiobook
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