great company right from the start-a lumbering, droll, neatnik intellectual who comes off as equal parts Garrison Keillor, Michael Kinsley, and. Dave Barry." - The New York Times Book Review "A Walk in the Woods is an almost perfect travel book." -The Boston Globe, "Bryson is. "Choke-on-your-coffee funny." - The Washington Post Book World "Bryson is. An adventure, a comedy, and a celebration, A Walk in the Woods has become a modern classic of travel literature.
Bryson's acute eye is a wise witness to this beautiful but fragile trail, and as he tells its fascinating history, he makes a moving plea for the conservation of America's last great wilderness.
But A Walk in the Woods is more than just a laugh-out-loud hike. Despite Katz's overwhelming desire to find cozy restaurants, he and Bryson eventually settle into their stride, and while on the trail they meet a bizarre assortment of hilarious characters. For a start there's the gloriously out-of-shape Stephen Katz, a buddy from Iowa along for the walk. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes - and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings. Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body.
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