A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail Mass market paperbound - 2006
by Bill Bryson
With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humor, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey along the Appalachian Trail in this "New York Times" bestseller, available in mass market for the first time.
About this book
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail is a 1998 book by travel writer Bill Bryson describing his attempt to walk the Appalachian Trail with his friend Stephen Katz. Ahead lay almost 2,200 miles of remote mountain wilderness filled with bears, moose, bobcats, rattlesnakes, poisonous plants, disease-bearing ticks, the occasional chuckling murderer, and - perhaps most alarming of all - people whose favorite 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. The book is written in a humorous style, interspersed with more serious discussions of matters relating to the trail's history, and the surrounding sociology, ecology, trees, plants, animals, and people.
Summary
From the jacket flap
God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath--The Appalachian Trail.
The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey.
An instant classic, riotously funny, "A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.
First Edition Identification
Broadway Books published a First Printing, First Edition in New York, 1998. The hardcover is characterized by tan and green cover over boards with gold lettering and design on the spine. Green inside covers, front and back. Blind stamp insignia of the publisher on the upper right corner of the front board. Doubleday published a First Edition Canadian hardcover in Toronto, 1999. Doubleday published a First Edition hardcover in London, 2000.
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- Title A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
- Author Bill Bryson
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition 2nd
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Anchor Books, New York
- Date 2006-12-26
- Features Maps
- ISBN 9780307279460 / 0307279464
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 6.9 x 4.2 x 1.2 in (17.53 x 10.67 x 3.05 cm)
- Reading level 1210
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Appalachians
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Topical: Ecology
- Library of Congress subjects Appalachian Trail - Description and travel, Bryson, Bill - Journeys - Appalachian Trail
- Dewey Decimal Code 917.404
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