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Published on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Appalachian Trail, a wry account by the author of The Lost Continent traces an adventurous trek past the trail's natural pleasures, human eccentrics, and offbeat comforts. Simultaneous.
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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.
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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 Wilber
'Short of doing it yourself, the best way of escaping into nature is to read a book like A Walk in the Woods ... Mr Bryson has met this challenge with zest and considerable humor ... a funny book, full of dry humor ... the reader is rarely anything but exhilarated.' (The New York Times)
'This is a seriously funny book.' (The Sunday Times)
'Entertaining and often illuminating.' (The Sunday Telegraph)
'This is a seriously funny book.' (The Sunday Times)
'Entertaining and often illuminating.' (The Sunday Telegraph)
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- PublisherBantam Audio
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0553525069
- ISBN 13 9780553525069
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Book Description 4-Cassettes/Sealed Box. Condition: Audio Cassettes - NEW. First Edition. BRAND NEW Copy; an oral history. 4 Audio Cassettes, narrated by author in sealed package. After return home after a sojournment in Britain of some 20 yrs, travel writer Bill Bryson (1951 -) decided to walk the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail w/friend Stephen Katz (a pseudonym). Their hike is described in his 1997, Doubleday, autobiographical book. A humorous personal account richl with studied discussions on theTrail's history, its surrounding sociology, ecology, trees, plants, animals, people & portends of the future. This is the 1998, Bryson authorized abridged edition on 4 cassettes (6 hrs) narrated by master wordmaster Bryson himself w/a distinct voice for Katz, and engaging British-American English. Book adapted to film in 2015; Bryson is portrayed by Robert Redford, and Katz by Nick Nolte. The engagin wordmaster Bryson was Chancellor of Durham University from 2005 to 2011. Seller Inventory # 020299
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