A Walk in the Woods (1997)
A Walk in the Woods is a 1997 description and travel book written by Bill Bryson.
Bill Bryson sets out to hike the Appalachian Trail, more than two thousand miles of ridgeline from Georgia to Maine, with almost no preparation and a reunion with his old friend Stephen Katz, who arrives out of shape and out of patience. The walking is the frame; the pleasure is the digression. Bryson folds in the trail's history, the ecology of the eastern forests, black bears, vanished tree species, and the eccentrics met along the way. His comedy runs companionable and self-deprecating, with a quiet ache underneath about what America has done to its wild places.
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What is A Walk in the Woods about?
Bill Bryson sets out to hike the Appalachian Trail, more than two thousand miles of ridgeline from Georgia to Maine, with almost no preparation and a reunion with his old friend Stephen Katz, who arrives out of shape and out of patience. The walking is the frame; the pleasure is the digression. Bryson folds in the trail's history, the ecology of the eastern forests, black bears, vanished tree species, and the eccentrics met along the way. His comedy runs companionable and self-deprecating, with a quiet ache underneath about what America has done to its wild places.
When was A Walk in the Woods published?
A Walk in the Woods was published in 1997.
Who made A Walk in the Woods?
A Walk in the Woods was written by Bill Bryson.
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Readers who love the trail as both comedy and elegy should watch Wild, Cheryl Strayed's solo Pacific Crest Trail memoir on film. Tracks follows a woman crossing the Australian desert in the same searching key. The 2015 film adaptation of this book pairs Robert Redford and Nick Nolte as Bryson and Katz.
Long-running documentary strands built for curious wandering minds
A Walk in the Woods turns two thousand miles of trail into a running education on forest ecology, vanished species and the history of the wild places Americans paved over. Nature, NOVA and Horizon share that same appetite for one subject explored in full, while American Experience and Frontline bring the same patient depth to history and public life.