BILL BRYSON's bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, In a Sunburned Country, A Short History of Nearly Everything (which earned him the 2004 Aventis Prize), The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, At Home, and One Summer. He lives in England with his wife.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"The best way of escaping into nature."
--New York Times
"Bryson is . . . great company right from the start--a lumbering,
droll, neatnik intellectual who comes off as equal parts Garrison
Keillor, Michael Kinsley, and . . . Dave Barry...[Readers] may find
themselves turning the pages with increasing amusement and
anticipation as they discover that they're in the hands of a
satirist of the first rank who writes (and walks) with Chaucerian
brio."
--New York Times Book Review "A terribly misguided and terribly
funny tale of adventure...choke-on-your-coffee funny."
--Washington Post Book World
"A Walk in the Woods is an almost perfect travel book."
--Boston Globe
"The Appalachian Trail...consists of some five million steps, and
Bryson manages to coax a laugh, and often an unexpectedly startling
insight, out of every one he traverses...It is hard not to grin
idiotically through all 304 pages...sheer comic entertainment."
--Kirkus Reviews
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