A Walk in the Woods

By Bill Bryson

I love Bill Bryson's travelogues. By now this is an oldie but a goodie. I really enjoyed the first portion of the book when he walks the major portion of the Appalachian Trail in one go. I felt the last quarter fell away to nothing as his went out for a day here and there. Having said that he writes in a very accessible and humorous way. I think I'll have to get the movie out and give it a watch.

Synopsis

The longest continuous footpath in the world, the Appalachian Trail stretches along the East Coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. through some of the most arresting and celebrated landscapes in America.
At the age of forty-four, in the company of his friend Stephen Katz(last seen in the best selling Neither Here nor There), Bill Bryson set out to hime through the vast tangled woods which have been frightening sensible people for three hundred years. Ahead lay almost 2,200 miles of remote mountain wilderness filled with bears, moose, bobcats, rattlesnakes, poisonous plants, disease-bearing ticks, the occasional chuckling murderer and - perhaps most alarming of all - people whose favourite pastime is discussing the relative merits of the of the external-frame backpack.
Facing savage weather, merciless insects, unreliable maps and a fickle

Author

William McGuire Bryson OBE HonFRS is an Anglo-American author of books on travel, the English language, science, and other non-fiction topics. Wikipedia

Other books 

The Lost Continent (1989)

Mother Tongue (1990)

Neither Here nor There (1992)

Made in America (1994)

Notes from a Small Island (1996)

A Walk in the Woods (1998)

Notes from a Big Country (1999)

Down Under (2000)
Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words (2002)
Bill Bryson's African Diary (2002)
A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003)
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (2006)
Shakespeare: The World as Stage (2007)
Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors (2008)
A Really Short History of Nearly Everything (2009)
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (2010)
One Summer: America, 1927 (2013)
The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From a Small Island (2015)