A Walk in the Woods Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
eBook - 2010
NEW 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 glo...riously out-of-shape Stephen Katz, a buddy from Iowa along for the walk....
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Crown
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- English
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- Overdrive Resource Page
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- Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
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File Size | 3 GB |
ISBN | 9780307717832 |
Release Date | 10/13/2009 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B000S1LSAM |
Release Date | 10/13/2009 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9780307717832 |
Release Date | 10/13/2009 |