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A walk in the woods : rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail / Bill Bryson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Broadway Books, 1999, c1998.Edition: 1st trade pbk. edDescription: 276 p. : map ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0767902521
  • 9780767902526
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 917.40443 21
LOC classification:
  • F106 .B92
Summary: Stretching from Georgia to Maine, the Appalachian Trail offers some of America's most breathtaking scenery. It also offers an irresistible, amusingly ill-conceived adventure to Bryson & his out-of-shape walking companion, Stephen Katz. Mile by arduous mile, these unlikely pioneers walk the Appalachian Trail, along the way surviving the threat of bear attacks, cravings for hot showers & cream sodas, the loss of key provisions, & everything else this rugged territory can throw at them. But Bryson's account also vividly conjures a backdrop of silent forests & sparkling lakes - America's astonishing but fragile landscape. Both a hilarious comedy & a tribute to one of our country's last great wildernesses, A Walk in the Woods is a modern classic of travel literature.
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Book Book Karen H. Huntsman Library Main Book Collection - Second Level 917.40443 B848 1 Available 38060007388705
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-276).

Stretching from Georgia to Maine, the Appalachian Trail offers some of America's most breathtaking scenery. It also offers an irresistible, amusingly ill-conceived adventure to Bryson & his out-of-shape walking companion, Stephen Katz. Mile by arduous mile, these unlikely pioneers walk the Appalachian Trail, along the way surviving the threat of bear attacks, cravings for hot showers & cream sodas, the loss of key provisions, & everything else this rugged territory can throw at them. But Bryson's account also vividly conjures a backdrop of silent forests & sparkling lakes - America's astonishing but fragile landscape. Both a hilarious comedy & a tribute to one of our country's last great wildernesses, A Walk in the Woods is a modern classic of travel literature.

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