A Walk in the Woods (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Ulrich’s request to change the title of A Walk in the Woods 3 weeks ago.

Ulrich changed the title of A Walk in the Woods 3 weeks ago.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of A Walk in the Woods Tuesday, August 18 2009.

• Not"Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire I happened upon a path that vanished into a wood on the edge of town.town."

Ron A approved Timothy Gray’s request to combine 34 books, including A Walk in the Woods, Tuesday, August 18 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of A Walk in the Woods Friday, July 31 2009.

• Bill Bryson has made a living out of traveling and then writing about it. In The Lost Continent he re-created the road trips of his childhood; in Neither Here nor There he retraced the route he followed as a young backpacker traversing Europe. When this American transplant to Britain decided to return home, he made a farewell walking tour of the British countryside and produced Notes from a Small Island . Once back on American soil and safely settled in New Hampshire, Bryson once again hears the siren call of the open road--only this time it's a trail. The Appalachian Trail, to be exact. In A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson tackles what is, for him, an entirely new subject: the American wilderness. Accompanied only by his old college buddy Stephen Katz, Bryson starts out one March morning in north Georgia, intending to walk the entire 2,100 miles to trail's end atop Maine's Mount Katahdin. If nothing else, A Walk in the Woods is proof positive that the journey is the destination. As Bryson and Katz haul their out-of-shape, middle-aged butts over hill and dale, the reader is treated to both a very funny personal memoir and a delightful chronicle of the trail, the people who created it, and the places it passes through. Whether you plan to make a trip like this one yourself one day or only care to read about it, A Walk in the Woods is a great way to spend an afternoon. --Alix Wilber

Shelfari edited the contributors of A Walk in the Woods Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Bill Bryson:

Shelfari edited the contributors of A Walk in the Woods Friday, July 17 2009.

• Added a contributor: Bill Bryson: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of A Walk in the Woods Friday, July 17 2009.

• Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire I happened upon a path that vanished into a wood on the edge of town.

Timothy Gray submitted a request to combine 34 books, including A Walk in the Woods, Saturday, July 4 2009.