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A Walk In The Woods

A Walk In The Woods

by Bill Bryson

4.02 out of 5 (126 ratings)

Format:
Paperback 
Pages:
368 
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd 
Publication Date:
01 July 1998 
Category:
Books 
ISBN:
9780552997027 

Description

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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  • The best laugh out loud travel book ever written. Read it!

    5.00 out of 5

    readaholic12

  • Typical Bill Bryson, in that I was laughing from the first to the last page of this book. I thoroughly appreciated much of what he was going through after having just hiked hundreds of km's in backcountry New Zealand myself, although at least I didn't have to deal with Katz or any kind of bears!

    5.00 out of 5

    stomps

  • History, sore feet, and Katz. No better combination has ever been created. OK< OK< perhaps MacBeth and A Catcher in the Rye, but AWITW is marvelous - informative and real, while at the same time laugh out loud funny. As with many of his other books, Bryson is able to weave history and social issues into what purports to be a travelogue. Who knew that reading about Newts in the Smokies could be so...fulfilling?

    5.00 out of 5

    Oreillynsf

  • This book was putatively about hiking the Appalachian Trail, however it also covered a lot of other ground (so to speak) both related to the trail and not. So funny I almost put it in the humor section.

    5.00 out of 5

    andersonden

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