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  <title><![CDATA[A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail]]></title>
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  <default_description>The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America&amp;#8211;majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you&amp;#8217;re going to take a hike, it&amp;#8217;s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaing guide you&amp;#8217;ll find. 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&amp;#8211;and a couple of bears. Already a classic, &lt;i&gt;A Walk in the Woods &lt;/i&gt; will make you long for the great outdoors (or at least a comfortable chair to sit and read in).</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1997</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's been a busy couple of weeks, so I thought I'd spent the last of my holiday indulging in a witty travelogue to set my feet itching. Unfortunately, I picked the wrong book. Years of declining the advice of the Bryson-worshipers, it seems, was not in vain.<br/><br/>I'm halfway through, and - lik...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11156">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read most of Bill Bryson's books and they are all good-- excellent even.  His gift is in his ability to detect the humor in any situation.  Where you or I might see a man walking down the street he sees something, and articulates it so well, packed with humor.  But this book is his best.  The...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6236582">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I live within a couple miles of the Appalachian Trail in Virginia, and I have toyed with day hikes and weekend treks up and down the trail near home, so I picked up this book to glimpse the musings of Bill Bryson on the experience of doing the whole trail.<br/><br/>I've been somewhat drawn to Brys...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19284329">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[  I have a friend in Vermont who spent his honeymoon hiking the Appalachian Trail.  It took them 6 months, start to finish.   They now live in a home powered by solar batteries.  Like Bryson, their respect for nature is very real.  This is an entertaining account of Bryson's experience and can vicar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18815376">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Nov 03 07:51:25 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Nov 03 20:53:12 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[At the recomendation of one of my bosses I took this book along on  a strenuous 10 mile backcountry hike in Shenandoah that was full of amazing mountain-top vistas, stream crossings, and beautiful rocky trails framed with fall folliage.<br/><br/>It is a hilarious book that recounts Byson's aventur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8605292">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7626223">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Finishing Part 1, I feel so let down. Bill and Katz have left the AT and gone their separate ways, promising to return end of summer. Now it's no secret they won't conplete the through-hike. I just about feel like giving up the remaining pages myself.<br/><br/>This is my first Bryson read, and it'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7626223">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1270521">
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Imagine a grueling, four-month wilderness trek along the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine.  Your guide: an intellectual, who lived half his life in England, well versed in geology, zoology, ecology and pretty much all of the other ‘ologies.’   Yet, this far from ordinary guide summons the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1270521">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13808770">
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 24 07:45:58 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bryson has a great sense of humor, and does a good job of capturing the quirkiness of backwood folk. However, I was sometimes frustrated by his viewpoints, which dampened my opinion and enjoyment of this book. For instance, Bryson says on page 199:<br/><br/>&quot;To tell you the truth I was gettin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13808770">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jan 04 07:08:09 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[At the dawn of the twentieth-century, journalists, travel writers, social workers, and adventure seekers descended on the Appalachian Mountains in droves, expecting to find a land of violent, uneducated &quot;hillbillies&quot; whose primary occupations were distilling illegal alcohol and killing one...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11616201">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7125432">
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    <body><![CDATA[Bill Bryson is a terrific writer.  The first half of this book not only hooked me on Bill Bryson's writing, it had me laughing out loud in ways I can only describe as embarrassing.  Why, then, did I give it a lowly three stars?  I averaged the first and second halves of the book.  I even rounded up,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7125432">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i always tell people that they will either love this (and most of his other) books to death, or that they will find them utterly unamusing. i find them hilarious. i have never laughed so hard while reading a book as with Bryson's books. Give it a go--you'll know after the first few chapters whether ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48758429">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Undoubtedly an amusing, breezy read, full of the kind of fun and hilarity all the blurbs lead you to expect.  For instance, &quot;Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature.  Nonsense.  A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.&quot;  That had me laughing on the tra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54209184">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37580097">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a wonderful book to listen to while traveling with a group of people. It will keep you interested and laughing heartily all the way to your destination.<br/><br/>Bryson decided one day that it would be a neat thing to hike the Appalachian Trail – all 2,160 miles of it (although the actua...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37580097">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2602056">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Since I was going to be spending six days in Virginia (Roanoke) and Tennessee (Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge), I thought it would be fitting to read Bryson's book about trekking the Appalachian Trail.<br/><br/>I figured that this book would be much like his others--full of comedic prose and a smidgen of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2602056">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Wed Oct 24 10:02:19 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book to be very funny and entertaining.  However, I felt that his research and &quot;editorializing&quot; about natural resource management was somewhat lopsided.  He is extremely critical of federal agencies such as the National Park Service and the US Forest Service, who really accomp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7796132">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my first book of Bryson and already I'm in love. What a fantastically witty writer and his job is what every journalist (whether they realize it or not) wishes it could be -- traveling the world and doing research on the places he visits. The first 40 pages of this book are laugh-out loud fu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1383222">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really fun book about backpacking, setting goals, and enjoying friends.  Backpacking is the strangest of activities I have ever participated in.  It is pure hell, which during the hike I am frequently repeating to myself, &quot;what the hell am I doing here&quot;, yet everytime when the hike is fini...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39027009">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bryson is a funny writer, but this book is surely his gem in the comic travel genre.  While the author cannot possibly be a slouch, given what he actually achieves, he writes from the perspective of a bumbler who barely manages to make it through.  An adventure book for sure, but more than anything ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39296444">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My friend Shelia urged me to read Bill Bryson, and he's an author I'd always intended to read but had not gotten around to yet. She recommended that I start with &quot;A Walk in the Woods,&quot; and it was a great recommendation.<br/><br/>It's not a book I would normally be drawn to...I'm not a ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28322568">more...</a>]]></body>
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