description: Bill Bryson, whose previous travelogues The Lost Continent, Neither Here Nor There, and Notes from a Small Island have garnered the author quite a following, now returns to his native United States after more than two decades of living abroad. In order to rediscover America by, as he puts it, "going out into an America that most people scarcely know is there," he set out to walk, in the company of Stephen Katz, his college roommate and sometime nemesis, the length of the Appalachian Trail. His account of that adventure is at once hilarious, inspiring, and even educational.
language: English
title: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
titlecomplete: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
characters: Bill Abdu, Mary Ellen, Beulah, Stephen Kats, Bill Bryson
genres: Biography, Outdoors, Nature, Adventure, Memoir, Nonfiction, Humor, Travel, History, Audiobook
ratings_count: 401080
places: Appalachian Trail, North Carolina, The United States of America
publisher: Books on Tape