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  by waltcamp45 & 34 users

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Type: educational

Status: to read

Author: Bill Bryson

2007-12-20

  by anm_sa & 4 users

• Current

Type: documentary

Status: liked

Author: Bill Bryson

2007-11-07

  by toknado & 1 users

• Current

Type: documentary

Status: finished

Author: Bill Bryson

Description: Another of my favorite travel books. While I recommend everything by Bill Bryson this one willAnother of my favorite travel books. While I recommend everything by Bill Bryson this one will always be my favorite....

2007-08-20

  by erinsabs

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Type: documentary

Status: finished

Author: Bill Bryson

Tags: america humor, travel, non-fiction, backpacking, eduational,

Description: From Publishers Weekly
Returning to the U.S. after 20 years in England, Iowa native BrysonFrom Publishers Weekly
Returning to the U.S. after 20 years in England, Iowa native Bryson decided to reconnect with his mother country by hiking the length of the 2100-mile Appalachian Trail. Awed by merely the camping section of his local sporting goods store, he nevertheless plunges into the wilderness and emerges with a consistently comical account of a neophyte woodsman learning hard lessons about self-reliance. Bryson (The Lost Continent) carries himself in an irresistibly bewildered manner, accepting each new calamity with wonder and hilarity. He reviews the characters of the AT (as the trail is called), from a pack of incompetent Boy Scouts to a perpetually lost geezer named Chicken John. Most amusing is his cranky, crude and inestimable companion, Katz, a reformed substance abuser who once had single-handedly "become, in effect, Iowa's drug culture." The uneasy but always entertaining relationship between Bryson and Katz keeps their walk interesting, even during the flat stretches. Bryson completes the trail as planned, and he records the misadventure with insight and elegance. He is a popular author in Britain and his impeccably graceful and witty style deserves a large American audience as well.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. ...

2007-05-27

  by misquoted & 4 users

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Type: documentary

Status: to read

Author: Bill Bryson

2007-05-10