![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Text adapted from Bill Bryson’s homepage. 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 pasttime is discussing the relative merits of the external-frame backpack.įacing 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. In A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail Bill Bryson funnily introduces the history and ecology of the Appalachian Trail: at the age of forty-four, in the company of his friend Stephen Katz, Bryson set off to hike through the vast tangled woods which have been frightening sensible people for three hundred years. Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. When Bryson and his bumbling friend set out to hike the Appalachian Trail, they are plagued by misfortune from the very start. 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. ![]() A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. ![]()
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