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A Walk in the Woods
by Bryson, Bill
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine/Near Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385408161
- ISBN 13
- 9780385408165
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, 1997. Hardcover. Fine/Near Very Fine. Cook, David. Large, sturdy book, black covers, very bright gilt lettering on spine, green color inside covers and adjacent end papers with rural illustration by David Cook, 320 stiff lightly browned pages, illustrations throughout, a map of Eastern Seaboard in early pages, a neat ink note about Bryson on dedication page signed "K" for Katz: "And to Phil and Debs--I was sure that just everyone knew about Bill Bryson! Well There you go! K" with a flourish. Bryson and his friend Katz aka Matt Angerer were hiking partners on the Appalachian Trail, now a film with Robert Reford as Bryson and Nick Nolte as Katz. DJ glossy white background, a color-illustration of moose, bear, and leaves on front, another at top back, praise from Sunday Telegraph, Daily Express, TheTimes. Spine lightly askew. DJ has very tiny creases at spine top left edge beneath mylar. DJ and book, both Near Very Fine.
Synopsis
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail is a 1998 book by travel writer Bill Bryson describing his attempt to walk the Appalachian Trail with his friend Stephen Katz. Ahead lay almost 2,200 miles of remote mountain wilderness filled with bears, moose, bobcats, rattlesnakes, poisonous plants, disease-bearing ticks, the occasional chuckling murderer, and - perhaps most alarming of all - people whose favorite 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. The book is written in a humorous style, interspersed with more serious discussions of matters relating to the trail's history, and the surrounding sociology, ecology, trees, plants, animals, and people.
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- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58395
- Title
- A Walk in the Woods
- Author
- Bryson, Bill
- Illustrator
- Cook, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0385408161
- ISBN 13
- 9780385408165
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- Nature Nature Writing England
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- Nature;
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