A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill BrysonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Bill and his friend Stephen Katz (a pseudonym) set out to hike the whole Appalachian Trail. A humorous recounting of their many mis-adventures. Very easy to read. What is remarkable is not what happened on the trail but Bill Bryson's very thorough and well-researched approach to writing. In this book, I found leads to many other books that I will now read.
I was a bit disappointed that they didn't really traverse the whole trail. In the last chapter he tallies all that he has hiked and it comes to about 870 miles or almost 40% of the trail. They hardly did any of New Jersey and New York -- the part of the trail I'm most familiar with. Anyway, I would still recommend this book to anyone who is inspired by a desire to...walk in the woods.
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