A walk in the woods

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Sinopse

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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Autor: Bill Bryson

Autor

BILL BRYSON

Bill Bryson nasceu em Des Moines, Iowa, em 1951. Mudou-se para a Inglaterra em 1977 e recentemente voltou para os Estados Unidos. Escreveu vários livros de viagem, como The lost continent, Neither here nor there e Notes from a small island, além de dois sobre a língua inglesa (Mother tongue e Made in America).