![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you’ll find.” ( Taken from the book description on )Įven better, it was a book about the Appalachian Trail (AT)! I had just finished an end-to-end hike of the 279-mile “Long Trail” in Vermont in August and was an aspiring thru-hiker… I purchased it on the spot, and couldn’t wait to get home to start reading it. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. “The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America–majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. I had never heard of Bill Bryson in fall of 1998 when I first stumbled upon his book, but I was an avid hiker, and I was intrigued by both the title of the book and the art on the cover… I liked to walk in the woods! It definitely looked like my kind of book… I picked it up, rolled it over, and read the summary on the back… Print list price (2015 paperback editition): $8.62.Title: “A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail.”.Misled… that’s how I felt about Bill Bryson’s book “A Walk in the Woods” when I tried to read it in 1998, and that’s how I felt about the movie when I watched it on Tuesday night… First, let me talk about the book ( see the next post for my review of the movie). ![]()
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