Walk in the Woods [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Bryson, Bill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0767902513 ISBN 13: 9780767902519

Verlag: Broadway Books, 1998

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Book by Bryson Bill

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Published on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Appalachian Trail, a wry account by the author of The Lost Continent traces an adventurous trek past the trail's natural pleasures, human eccentrics, and offbeat comforts. $150,000 first printing. Tour.

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rom Georgia to Maine, the Appalachian Trail offers some of America's most breathtaking scenery. After living for many years in England, Bill Bryson moved back to the United States and decided to reacquaint himself with his country by taking to this uninterrupted "hiker's highway." Before long, Bryson and his infamous walking companion, Stephen Katz, are stocking up on insulated long johns, noodles and manuals for avoiding bear attacks as they prepare to set off on a walk that is both amusingly ill-conceived and surprisingly adventurous. John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, and Peter Jenkins never took a hike like this.

A Walk in the Woods showcases Bryson at the height of his comic powers. Meeting up with characters such as Beulah and her fearsome husband, "Bubba T. Flubba," readers risk snakebite and hantavirus to trudge through swollen rivers, traipse up mountainsteps, and develop a new reverence for cream sodas and hot showers. But Bryson also uses his acute

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• Verlag: Broadway Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0767902513
• ISBN 13: 9780767902519
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274