A Walk in the Woods
2 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by allbookedup from Wien Bezirk 21 - Floridsdorf, Wien Austria on Sunday, May 4, 2003
To be read
Journal Entry 2 by allbookedup from Wien Bezirk 21 - Floridsdorf, Wien Austria on Saturday, May 31, 2003
Very funny (but that's what I expected from Bill Bryson, he always makes me laugh) but also very good and detailed information on the Apalachian Trail.
This book is available for trade now.
This book is available for trade now.
Journal Entry 3 by allbookedup from Wien Bezirk 21 - Floridsdorf, Wien Austria on Wednesday, September 3, 2003
This book is going to "Fofum" in the UK in a trade for The Eyre Affair.
Journal Entry 4 by Fofum from Beverley, East Yorkshire United Kingdom on Thursday, September 11, 2003
This was waiting for me when I got home from work today. Thanks so much, I'll journal more when I've read it.
I've nearly finished 'The Eyre Affair' - it is really good!
I've nearly finished 'The Eyre Affair' - it is really good!
What a joy it has been to read Bill Bryson again! He tells his stories so well, you can almost hear him speaking them. This one was a fantastic stroll through the Appalachians, though I think I learned more about Bryson & Kutz than I did about the Trail.
The descriptions were vivid and not 'chocolate boxy', the annecdotes fascinating and not laboured and the wry humour very, very funny. For an American writer, Bryson does irony with style - perhaps his time in North Yorkshire was well spent!
He has inspired me to make the most of the bright Autumn sunshine we have today - I'm going to take the dog for a walk on the beach now! This has been prompted by Bryon's annecdote about 'one Frederick Strickland of Bridlington, Yorkshire, who lost his way while hiking in an October storm in 1849'. I am now off to Bridlington beach to brave the North Sea on-shore wind!
I'd like to put this book into my Permanent Collection, if that's OK. I think I will be dipping in and out of it over and over again! Thankyou for sending it my way.
The descriptions were vivid and not 'chocolate boxy', the annecdotes fascinating and not laboured and the wry humour very, very funny. For an American writer, Bryson does irony with style - perhaps his time in North Yorkshire was well spent!
He has inspired me to make the most of the bright Autumn sunshine we have today - I'm going to take the dog for a walk on the beach now! This has been prompted by Bryon's annecdote about 'one Frederick Strickland of Bridlington, Yorkshire, who lost his way while hiking in an October storm in 1849'. I am now off to Bridlington beach to brave the North Sea on-shore wind!
I'd like to put this book into my Permanent Collection, if that's OK. I think I will be dipping in and out of it over and over again! Thankyou for sending it my way.
