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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #76554 in Books
• Brand: STACKPOLE BOOKS
• Published on: 1994-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 266 pages

Features

• BOOK, WALKING THRE APPALACHIAN TRAIL

Customer Reviews

Totally related to why he was there
I totally related to the author and why he was out there on the trail. Well written and although the historical commentary sometimes bored me which I admit I skipped sometimes, I could not put this book down. The author's recollection and re cantering of being on the trail, it's hardships, on and off again friendships, losing 75 pounds, why he was out there in the first place, trying to find himself... well, again, I totally related to how he felt. I also give his wife a lot of kudos for sticking it out and letting the author do what he needed to do at that time of his life. I really liked how the book ended or should I say the author's quest ended? Those last few pages when he went to Trail Days in Damascus..said it all. I recommend this book to anyone considering the hike, thru, section, or day hiking does not matter. It's all still hiking isn't it?

Walking the Appalachian Trail
This was a book that was hard to put down once I got started reading, because I waned to know more about the trail and how to get started

better than A Walk in the Woods
As someone who grew up within a stone's throw of the AT in East Tennessee, I've had a lifelong passion for the trail and have spent a lot of time hiking it. Along those lines I've also read a lot about the trail, exhausting my library's scant collection of books on the AT.

I was eager to crack open Bill Bryson's "A Walk in the Woods" when it came out because so many people recommended it to me. Boy am I sorry I did! What I was hoping would be a thoughtful, enlightening, and entertaining story of a man's journey turned out to be a big disappointment. Bryson was exceedingly whiny and had an ugly, close-minded perspective on the trail, especially concerning people in the South. He even skipped one of the best sections of the trail: that along the TN-NC border north of the Smokies and south of Damascus! If you want to hear a city-raised yankee whining about the outdoors, then be my guest to that overhyped travesty of a book.

If you want to learn something about the AT, its people, and its culture, then read this book. As much time as I've spent on the AT, even I learned something! It's easy to read and you can pick it up, thumb to any chapter, and entertain yourself with fantastic stories and learn what it's really like to be a thruhiker. This a nonfictional masterpiece, and people from all walks of life, from urbanite yankee to downhome hillbilly, have something to learn from this book.