A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Bryson, Bill

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ISBN 10: 0552997021 ISBN 13: 9780552997027

Casa editrice: Black Swan, 1998

Riassunto

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 bestselling Neither Here nor There), Bill Bryson set off to hike 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 tics, the occasional chuckling murderer and - perhaps most alarming of all - people whose favourite pastime is discussing the relative merits of the external-frame backpack.

Facing savage weather, merciless insects, unreliable maps and a fickle companion whose profoundest wish was to go to a motel and watch The X-Files, Bryson gamely struggled through the wilderness to achieve a lifetime's ambition - not to die outdoors.

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Recensione

"Choke-on-your-coffee funny" (Washington Post)

"This is a seriously funny book" (Sue Townsend The Sunday Times)

"Short of doing it yourself, the best way of escaping into nature is to read a book like A Walk in the Woods... Mr Bryson has met this challenge with zest and considerable humor... a funny book, full of dry humor... the reader is rarely anything but exhilarated" (The New York Times)

"Entertaining and often illuminating" (Paul Johnson Sunday Telegraph)

"Irreverent, wildly funny, crowded with anecdotes and observation" (Ideal Home)

Descrizione del libro

The funniest travel writer in the world takes a hike.

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• Editore: Black Swan
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0552997021
• ISBN 13: 9780552997027
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 368