A Walk In The Woods

by Bill Bryson
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The funniest travel writer in the world takes a hike.

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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.At the age of forty-four, in the company of his friend Stephen Katz (last seen in the bestselling Neither Here nor There), Bill Bryson set off to hike through the vast tangled woods which have been frightening sensible people for three hundred years. 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 pastime is discussing the relative merits of the external-frame backpack.Facing 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.

Editorial Reviews

"Choke-on-your-coffee funny" - Washington Post

"This is a seriously funny book" - Sue Townsend, Sunday Times

"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" - New York Times

"Irreverent, wildly funny, crowded with anecdotes and observation" - Ideal Home

"Entertaining and often illuminating" - Paul Johnson, Sunday Telegraph

"An almost perfect travel book" - Boston Globe

"Smart and funny...a satirist of the first rank, one who writes (and walks) with Chaucerian brio" - New York Times Book Review

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