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A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike

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Bill Bryson

5 Hours 58 Minutes

Penguin Books LTD

April 2010

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The Appalachian Trail covers 14 states, and over 2,000 miles. It stretches along the East Coast of the United States, from Maine in the north to Georgia in the south. It is famous for being the longest continuous footpath in the world. (Compare this with the Pennine Way, which is a mere 250 miles long.) It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas - Redneck country - Moonshine, Lil' Abner, there's bears in them thar hills. Remember the film Deliverance?

God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake this gruelling hike. Perhaps it was just a long-held ambition to lose weight: he has lost two stone so far. As he recently wrote from the trail to his publisher:
'Speaking of vigorous exercise, boy have I just had some. Maine was a bitch. I want you to come back and walk it with me so that when you die if you go to hell you will be able to say: 'Call this hell? Try walking across Maine in August.''

Reared in the tradition of Mark Twain, James Thurber and S.J. Perelman, Bryson used his many years in Britain to soak up a peculiarly English sense of irony and humour and to hone a laugh-out-loud style that is uniquely, hilariously, his own.

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  • Anonymous

    A very rude, elitist author

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  • Terry S.

    I hope to write like Bill one day

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  • Cheryl Wolber

    The person who didn't finish listening to this book, short-changed herself. It is a deleriously funny true story. I first listened to it on a long drive down the east-coast. Truckers going by must have thought I was crazy; I laughed so much. It certainly made the drive a joy I didn't want to stop driving. It is a well-written narrative of Bryson's trials and tribulations as he and his friend "Cat", on impulse, trek the Appalachian Trail. Bryson includes a lot of interesting history and facts about the areas they travel thru.But it is his own narration of this story that makes it priceless.Definitely listen to the 'Unabridged' narration; there is too much left out of the 'Abridgement'. I've listened to both and I'm glad I heard the 'unabridged' version first.

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  • Danemls247

    Amazing story of one’s hike on the AT.

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  • Anonymous

    Really enjoyed the book, engaging from start to finish, laugh out loud funny at times, educating and interesting at others.

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  • Sandra T.

    Well done! It’s stories within a story and many “side stories” to amuse you or teach you a little sumptin!

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  • Angela S.

    Funny, motivating, history, all-in-one. I suggest this book to anyone who likes the outdoors, adventure or just a humorous read to switch up your norm.

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  • Anonymous

    Good read.

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  • Fernanda M.

    My favorite book of all time. I must have read it over 10 times now. I pick up new things in it in each read, and it never fails to put a smile on my face.

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  • Micah D.

    I was tickled first, then educated, and tickled again. A winsome read, but thoroughly researched.

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