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A walk in the woods rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

Bill Bryson and his hiking partner risk snake bites, bear attacks and more while walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail.

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  • "Bill Bryson and his hiking partner risk snake bites, bear attacks and more while walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail."@en
  • "Bill Bryson and his hiking partner risk snake bites, bear attacks and more while walking the 2,100-mile Appalchian Trail."
  • "Bryson share his experiences hiking the Appalachian Trail with a childhood friend, and the two encounter eccentric characters, a blizzard, getting lost, and rude yuppies along the way."@en
  • "Traces the author's adventurous trek along the Appalachian Trail past its natural pleasures, human eccentrics, and offbeat comforts."@en
  • ""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.""--Publisher description."
  • "The longest continuous footpath in the world, the Appalachian Trail, stretches along the East Coast of the United States through some of the most arresting landscapes in America. In the company of a friend Bill Bryson sets off to hike 2200 miles of remote mountain wilderness filled with bears, rattlesnakes and poisonous plants. Facing savage weather and unreliable maps, Bryson gamely struggled through the wilderness to achieve a lifetime's ambition, not to die outdoors."
  • "Bryson tackles the American wilderness as he starts out to walk the entire 2,100 miles of the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. His journey is both gruelling and fascinating, taking him through poverty-stricken and backwoods areas, and giving a rare perspective on American life. His other travel books include "The lost continent"."@en
  • "A hilarious account of Bryson's 2,100-mile hike along the Appalachian Trail with his friend Stephen Katz."@en
  • "A hilarious account of Bryson's 2,100-mile hike along the Appalachian Trail with his friend Stephen Katz."
  • "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."@en
  • "Returning to the United States after 20 years in England, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his mother country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail. Known affectionately as the AT, it offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes. But for Bryson it also offered an opportunity for humor and irony as he learned the trail's hard lessons about self-reliance. He persuaded his friend Stephen Katz to join him for weeks and months on the trail."@en
  • "After 20 years in Great Britain, Bill Bryson reaquaints himself with the United States by travelling the Appalachian Trail."@en
  • "An hilarious account of Bryson's 2,100-mile hike along the Appalachian Trail with his friend Stephen Katz."@en
  • "Returning to the United States after 20 years in England, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his mother country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail."@en
  • "Bill Bryson and his hiking partner risk snake bites, bear attacks and more while walking the 2,100 mile Appalachian Trail."
  • "A rediscovery of America on the Appalachian Trail with hilarious record of the dangers, quirky characters, and awe-inspiring scenery."

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