A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail)

by Bill Bryson | Humor |
ISBN: 0767902521 Global Overview for this book
Registered by verenka of Wien - irgendwo / Vienna - somewhere, Wien Austria on 11/2/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by verenka from Wien - irgendwo / Vienna - somewhere, Wien Austria on Monday, November 2, 2009
Time to travel on!

Journal Entry 2 by verenka at Phönixhofl, Neustiftgasse 55 in Wien Bezirk 07 - Neubau, Wien Austria on Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Released 14 yrs ago (12/3/2009 UTC) at Phönixhofl, Neustiftgasse 55 in Wien Bezirk 07 - Neubau, Wien Austria

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Journal Entry 3 by lady-liberty from Coburg, Bayern Germany on Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Months ago I followed Bill Bryson on his walk on the Appalachian Trail in the German version and really liked the book. It sounds interesting to read the original once.

Journal Entry 4 by lady-liberty at Coburg, Bayern Germany on Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Too many book, too little time to read them all...

As verenka wrote five years ago I write now: Time to travel on. So I'll take A Walk in the Woods to Nuremberg UnConvention in October.

Journal Entry 5 by winghuskywing at Rheinstetten, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Sunday, October 5, 2014
Cool front cover picture. I've seen this book already a few times but never laid hands on an english language version.

Journal Entry 6 by winghuskywing at Kürnbach, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Saturday, January 24, 2015
Great book. Me, I like hiking a lot and I did it in woods in more than one country (and more than one continent). I think I can relate to a lot of the thoughts and sentiments of Bill Bryson, though I have never experienced a trail as long as the Appalachian Mountain Trail. Sounds really tempting. The only thing where I sort of disagree with is the book's attitude towards the dangers of hiking the woods in temperate climate zones in developed countries. There where numerous occasions where I thought he is just exagerating. But maybe he just wants to keep unexperienced people from entering the trail for the sake of keeping it "wild", or from filing lawsuits against him for not having given careful advise in his book...

I especially liked his comment on hiking in Luxembourg (page 200) where he praises the ability of European land use planning to incorporate contradicting interests in one and the same space. Unlike in America (and in many other countries), out of history most densely populated European countries have learned to run a sustainable forestry and agriculture while at the same time giving room for wildlife - instead of completely separating "production" forest from "wilderness" areas.

And let me make a comment on his opinion of hunting moose (p 242), I think he is not righteous here - because just after wondering how on earth somebody would engage in shooting such an admirable animal as a moose he eats some salami; presumably made also from meat of an animal that had been bred and killed for that very purpose. I am convinced that hunting game is so much more natural than any modern industrial farming and meat-producing methods. It is somehow similar to the comment above, about page 200: You can separate wilderness and culture entirely (no hunt at all on the one hand - highly industrialized meat production on the other side with terrible living conditions for the farm animals), or you can accept that eating meat is a part of the natural circle of life and go hunting happy animals in their natural surrounding and abandon any unnatural farming industry. The second approach appeals more to me.

By the way, I think "humor" is not the correct category, "travel" or "outdoors" is more appropriate. I appreciate that there are a lot of funny scenes but at the same time a lot of serious topics are dealt with.

Journal Entry 7 by winghuskywing at Bronners Bistro/Weinstube in Wiesloch, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Released 9 yrs ago (1/31/2015 UTC) at Bronners Bistro/Weinstube in Wiesloch, Baden-Württemberg Germany

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Journal Entry 8 by wingYogiSchokowing at Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Saturday, January 31, 2015
I caught the book at the meetup in Wiesloch.

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