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A Walk in the Woods
(Audio, 1998)
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Author: Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson, known in England as "the funniest travel writer alive," returns to the States and walks...
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Format: Audio
ISBN-10: 0754001660
ISBN-13: 9780754001669
Sep 1998
Publisher: Chivers Audio Books
Unabridged
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Bill Bryson, known in England as "the funniest travel writer alive," returns to the States and walks the Appalachian Trail, starting in Hanover, New Hampshire.
| Size | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 7.0 in | | Thickness: | 2.5 in | | Weight: | 20.0 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire I happened upon a path that vanished into a wood on the edge of town."
Industry Reviews
"It's not all yuks--though it is hard not to grin idiotically through all 288 pages--for Bryson is a talented portraitist of place."
Kirkus Reviews (03/01/1998)
Everywhere Bryson goes, women seem to be ugly. . . . These sexist caricatures may be metonymies for the ugliness of American culture, which is Bryson's perennial subject, but his vigilant insistence on other people's inferiority can be cloying. . . . Even his buddy Katz ('ideas are not Katz's strongest suit') makes a useful comic butt. . . . Bryson's disaffection with America is the flip side of his love affair with Europe. . . . Cultural warfare aside, Bryson writes well about the reality of the forest: an environment which is pleasant to imagine but uncongenial in practice. . . . Grisly takes of true crime and bear attacks combine with details of ecological disaster to give the book a sober side but Bryson is, of course, never less than readable. Though [this] is not as funny as his books are often alleged to be, it still has plenty of Bryson's distinctive verbal charisma.
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
DeCandido
This funny book has been well represented on radio and television talk shows, with Bryson presenting humorous and often poignant observations about his overweight, ex-alcoholic hiking partner Stephen Katz and their experiences along the Appalachian Trail (AT). Bryson had moved to England and gained most of his hiking experience along that country's friendly trails from village to village and pub to pub. An experienced travel writer (The Lost Continent, Audio Reviews, LJ 9/1/93), he decided to tackle the 2200-mile trail from Georgia to Maine and then discovered that wilderness hiking and British hiking are two very different things. Ultimately, Bryson and Katz struggle along a part of the southern trail and then abandon the whole idea. Bryson drives down and samples parts of the remaining AT, such as the Pennsylvania coal country, and finally he and Katz decide to give it another chance and set out into the 100-mile wilderness of Maine and quickly drop out again. The book's value lies in its humor and its trenchant observations on the environmental damage along selected portions of the trail and on the history both of the trail itself and the areas of the eastern mountains through which it winds. The author is often hilarious, his companion Katz is an entirely sympathetic character, and one learns a lot about those subjects Bryson touches upon. Fortunately, William Roberts is an excellent reader; his voice is alternately sardonic and matter-of-fact, just like Bryson writes. This will be popular in public library collections especially. Don Wismer, Cary Memorial Lib., Wayne, ME
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