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Bryson, Bill. A Walk in the Woods.

A Walk in the Woods 0552997021, 0385408161 A Walk in the Woods 0767902521
A Walk in the Woods 0553455923, 0553525069 A Walk in the Woods 0767902513
Title
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Author
Bryson, Bill
Publisher
Black Swan, London
Year
1998 (originally 1997)
ISBN
0552997021 (Paperback)
Illustrations
Cook, David (black & white drawings and map)
Table of Contents
none
Bibliography
none
Index
none
Pages
350
Categories
hiking, Appalachian Trail, mountains, travel, outdoors, conservation, wildlife, nature, humor, biology, United States
Language
English (en), German (de): see the translation Picknick mit Bären
Reading Level
adult
From the Book Cover
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 the 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 ticks, 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.
My Summary
A side-splittingly hilarious documentary of Bryson's hike on the Appalachian Trail spiced with occasional biting commentary on man's disregard for nature that he observes along the way. We also learn a little of the history of the trail, fondly called the AT by its aficionados.
This book was my introduction to Bill Bryson. I came upon it by chance while browsing through a bookstore in the Vienna train station, and I'm glad I did.
Robbin D. Knapp © 1999
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