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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, ...Show synopsisThe 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.Hide synopsis
A Walk in the Woods (Anchor Canada) – Trade paperback (2002)
by
Bill Bryson
Trade paperback, Anchor Canada 2002
English
352 pages
ISBN: 0385658583 ISBN-13: 9780385658584
God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath--The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye ...Show moreGod only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath--The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, "A Walk in the Woods" will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.Hide
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I loved the writing style. The writer not only allowed you to 'walk with him', but gave a lot of history of the Trail and politics that shaped the Trail. I absolutley enjoyed every minute. I passed the book on to my grandson who likes to hike.
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This was defanitly a wonderful book. I was a little dissapointed, because I thought they were going to actually complete the whole trail. But even though they didn't , it was worth the read. One of the funniest books I have read in a long time.
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It was indeed a trip.
A trip in locale, personal relationships and time. . and humorous.
Well written, a quick read and interesting. It is a book that when I put it down, I was looking forward to when I could continue reading it again.
Learned a lot about that part of the country from the descriptions ...
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I know a lot of people love this guy so I thought I should try him, starting with his first real success. Starts out well, is funny and interesting, irreverant at times, but has a background of a sort of hokey environmentalist/pining for what once was funk that is a bit boring. His later books are a ...
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