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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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    From the author of 'Notes from a Small Island' and 'The Lost Continent' comes this humorous report on his walk along the Appalachian Trail. The Trail is the longest continuous footpath in the world, and it snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in America.

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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. Ahead lay almost 2 200 miles of remote mountain wilderness filled with bears moose bobcats rattlesnakes poisonous plants disease-bearing tics the occasional chuckling murderer and - perhaps most alarming of all - people whose favourite pastime is discussing the relative merits of the external-frame backpack. Facing savage weather merciless insects unreliable maps and a fickle companion whose profoundest wish was to go to a motel and watch The X-Files Bryson gamely struggled through the wilderness to achieve a lifetime's ambition - not to die outdoors.

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    From the author of Notes from a Small Island and The Lost Continent comes this humorous report on his walk along the Appalachian Trail. The Trail is the longest continuous footpath in the world and it snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in America.

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    From the author of ''Notes from a Small Island'' and ''The Lost Continent'' comes this humorous report on his walk along the Appalachian Trail. The Trail is the longest continuous footpath in the world, and it snakes through some of the wildest and most

  • 0552997021
  • 9780552997027
  • Bill Bryson
  • 1 July 1998
  • Black Swan, London
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 350
  • paperback / softback
  • Illustrated
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