5 edition of A walk in the woods found in the catalog.
A walk in the woods
Caroline Arnold
Published
1990
by Silver Press in Englewood Cliffs, NJ
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Written in English
Describes some of the plants and animals that live in the forest and how the forest changes with each new season.
Edition Notes
| Statement | written by Caroline Arnold ; illustrated by Freya Tanz. |
| Series | First facts, First facts (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.) |
| Contributions | Tanz, Freya, ill. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | QH541.5.F6 A75 1990 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 1 v. (unpaged) : |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL1856380M |
| ISBN 10 | 0671686615, 0671686658 |
| LC Control Number | 90008335 |
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“A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail” is one of the best books for sure. Not only the non-fiction book but it is a special book for the people loving travel. Travel-based books are also the common books. "A Walk in the Woods" is a funny book, full of dry humor in the native-American grain. It is also a serious book. Nothing really terrible happened to the author, but by playing on our fears, he captures the ambivalence of our feelings about the wild.
Today I'm discussing Bill Bryson's travel memoir A Walk in the Woods, and comparing it against the movie adaptation staring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte. Check out the book. On his walk, he comes across a sign that says "The Appalachian Trail." Later that night, Bill does some research on the trail, concluding that it is a 2,+ mile trek from Georgia to Maine. When he tells Catherine about it, she voices her displeasure with the idea.
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Bill Bryson's books are more than just a travel book - they are funny, entertaining and very informative. A walk in the woods was all about his ambition to traverse the Apalacian trail. Together with his childhood friend 'Katz' he undertakes his venture - with some hilarious events along the way/5(K).
--The Washington Post Book World "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."--The New York Times Book Review "A Walk in the Woods is an almost perfect travel book."--The Boston Globe From the Trade Paperback Cited by: Bill Bryson's bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (which won the Aventis Prize in Britain and the Descartes Prize, the European Union's highest literary award).He was chancellor of Durham University, England's third oldest university, from toand is an honorary fellow of Britain's Royal /5().
He introduces us to the history and ecology of the trail and to some of the other hardy (or just foolhardy) folks he meets along the way—and a couple of bears.
Already a classic, A Walk in the Woods will make you long for the great outdoors (or at least a /5. So begins Bill Bryson's hilarious book A Walk in the Woods. Following his return to America after twenty years in Britain, Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine.
The Appalachian Trail—from Springer Mountain, Ga., to Mount Katahdin, Me.—consists of some five million steps, and Bryson (Notes from a Small Island,etc.) seems to coax a laugh, and often an unexpectedly startling insight, out of each one he ’s not all yuks—though it is hard not to grin idiotically through all pages—for Bryson is a talented portraitist of place.
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The main characters of this non fiction, travel story are Bill Bryson.4/5. A Walk in the Woods Summary. Bill Bryson is ambling around his New Hampshire home when he comes across an entrance to the Appalachian Trail, the world's longest hiking path. This sucker is long: it stretches over 2, miles from Georgia to Maine.
Naturally, Bryson's instantly decides that he wants to hike the whole thing. “A Walk in the Woods is an almost perfect travel book.” —The 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 pages sheer comic entertainment.”.
Directed by Ken Kwapis. With Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson, Mary Steenburgen. After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends, Stephen Katz (Nick Nolte)/10(K).
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But, don't get me wrong, I am a Bill Bryson fan, I like the way he presents facts in his natural humour/5(K). A Walk in the Woods Summary & Study Guide Description. A Walk in the Woods Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book.
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A Walk in the Woods () is author Bill Bryson’s personal account of walking the Appalachian Trail – one of the longest hiking trails in the US – which stretches from Georgia in the South to Maine in the lly a memoir recalling his attempt to follow its route, the book is also a tribute to the ecology, wildlife, geological history and natural environment of North America.
For a start there’s the gloriously out-of-shape Stephen Katz, a buddy from Iowa along for the walk. But A Walk in the Woods is more than just a laugh-out-loud hike.
Bryson’s acute eye is a wise witness to this beautiful but fragile trail, and as he tells its fascinating history, he makes a moving plea for the conservation of America’s.
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All the animals were out they wanted to play. A little brown bear was climbing a tree.
