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

Bryson, Bill

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ISBN 10: 178416111X ISBN 13: 9781784161118

Casa editrice: Black Swan, 2015

Riassunto

In the company of his friend Stephen Katz (last seen in the bestselling Neither Here nor There), Bill Bryson set off to hike the Appalachian Trail, the longest continuous footpath in the world. 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:

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

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

"A wonderful thing, a light and breezy account...whips along in sardonic Brysonian style." (The 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)

Descrizione del libro:

Now a major film starring Robert Redford, Nick Nolte and Emma Thompson: the funniest travel writer in the world takes a hike.

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• Editore: Black Swan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 178416111X
• ISBN 13: 9781784161118
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336