BRYSON, Bill.
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail.
"Everything sounds big in the woods": First Edition of Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods; Signed by Him
London: Doubleday, 1997.
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First British edition and true first of this classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny hike of the Appalachian Trail” (The Washington Post). Octavo, original boards, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Conrad, Best wishes, Bill Bryson." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Jerry Bauer. Jacket illustrations by David Cook.
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. 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.
For a start there’s the gloriously out-of-shape Stephen Katz, a buddy from Iowa along for the walk. But A Walk in the Woods is more than just a laugh-out-loud hike. 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. “The best way of escaping into nature" (The New York Times). CNN has called it the funniest travel book ever written.
It is the basis for the 2015 film directed by Ken Kwapis starring Robert Redford, Nick Nolte and Emma Thompson.
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail.
$850.00
Out of Stock
