A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian TrailNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body “The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes—and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings. For a start there’s the gloriously out-of-shape Stephen Katz, a buddy from Iowa along for the walk. But A Walk in the Woods is more than just a laugh-out-loud hike. Bryson’s acute eye is a wise witness to this beautiful but fragile trail, and as he tells its fascinating history, he makes a moving plea for the conservation of America’s last great wilderness. An adventure, a comedy, and a celebration, A Walk in the Woods is a modern classic of travel literature. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE |
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... troop of Eagle Scouts comes by at a depressing trot . Perhaps you are cold and hungry and smell so bad that you can no longer smell yourself . Perhaps you want to lie down and be as the lichen : not dead exactly but just very still for ...
... troop of Eagle Scouts comes by at a depressing trot . Perhaps you are cold and hungry and smell so bad that you can no longer smell yourself . Perhaps you want to lie down and be as the lichen : not dead exactly but just very still for ...
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... and found a Boy Scout troop marching into the clearing . They said hello and we said hello , and then we sat with our legs dangling from the sleeping platform and watched them fill the clearing a walk in the woods 147.
... and found a Boy Scout troop marching into the clearing . They said hello and we said hello , and then we sat with our legs dangling from the sleeping platform and watched them fill the clearing a walk in the woods 147.
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... troops at the Battle of Chancellorsville and died eight days later . The war was barely half over . He was just thirty - nine . Jackson spent much of the war in and around the Blue Ridge Mountains , camping in and marching through the ...
... troops at the Battle of Chancellorsville and died eight days later . The war was barely half over . He was just thirty - nine . Jackson spent much of the war in and around the Blue Ridge Mountains , camping in and marching through the ...
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail Bill Bryson Limited preview - 2010 |
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail Bill Bryson No preview available - 1999 |
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