A Walk in the Woods Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

Bill Bryson

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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Published
Crown
Language
English
Main Author
Bill Bryson
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
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Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size3 GB
ISBN9780307717832
Release Date10/13/2009
Kindle Book
ASINB000S1LSAM
Release Date10/13/2009
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780307717832
Release Date10/13/2009