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The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America??majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you??re going to take a hike, it??s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you??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??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 comfortable chair to sit and… (mais)
coclimber: Two Shadows is a fascinating book that goes from tragic to funny to shocking to thrilling and back to funny again. The climbing and travel stories range from dramatic to hilarious.
A British writer hiking the Appalachian Trail Bill Bryson is a witty writer, and his account of a hike along the Appalachian trail in the summer of 1996 is at times hilarious. He also provides a lot of interesting history, geology and ecology. As he is considering doing the walk, he reads a book about bear attacks and almost decides not to go. He contacts many of his friends to find someone to go with him, and Stephen Katz, a reformed alcoholic and out of shape, decides to come along. Katz's antics are some of the funniest parts of the book. They hike willingly from the start of the trail through Georgia, cross the Tennessee portion, then hike the Shenadoah portion to Front Royal. They started in March and it is now May. They decide to take the summer to attend to other business, but promise to meet in August to do the Maine portion of the trail. Bryson day hikes along snippets of the trail in Pennsylvania (his account of the Centralia anthracite coal fire, burning since 1962, is fascinating), Delaware Water Gap, Massachussets, Vermont and New Hampshire. He almost freezes in a change of weather on Mount Washington. Katz joins him in Maine, and they start across the Hundred Mile Wilderness, the most difficult part of the trail. They walk for several days in very hot weather, climbing nearly vertical rock walls and fording a pond. Katz becomes disoriented with thirst, and lost the trail for a day. After a few more miles, the pair decide that they have had it, find a logging road and hitch a ride to Milo, Me. In the end, Bryson figures he had hiked for 870 miles, about a third of the trail's length. ( )
Author and humorist Bill Bryson writes about his experiences hiking the Appalachian Trail in the mid-1990s. This tale has been charming readers for nearly three decades, but it fell a bit flat for me. Unlike Grandma Gatewood, whose walk I read about last year, Bryson didn’t actually hike the entire trail Also, I didn’t appreciate the slightly contemptuous, condescending tone Bryson assumes toward the Southern Appalachians and especially Gatlinburg, a tourist spot for many, but also a stomping ground for locals like me. Bryson bemoans the fact that of the fifteen Gatlinburg tourist attractions he listed in his The Lost Continent, published nearly a decade earlier, only three of them were still there when he returned on his Appalachian Trail journey. I can tell you that at least three of them weren’t in Gatlinburg a decade earlier, either, because they were actually several miles away in Pigeon Forge. I’ve been to Bonnie Lou and Buster’s music theater (although not for the Bonnie Lou and Buster Country Music Show), and it was most definitely in Pigeon Forge. So was Carbo’s Police Museum and the Irlene Mandrell Hall of Stars Museum and Shopping Mall. Bryson claims the missing attractions had been replaced by new ones such as Hillbilly Golf, which was already there the first time he visited Gatlinburg. I guess he just missed it. When I was a child and eagerly anticipating a trip to Gatlinburg, Hillbilly Golf was the landmark that indicated we had arrived. It makes me wonder about what else Bryson missed in places that I’m not familiar with. ( )
Con casi 3.500 km de longitud, el sendero de los Montes Apalaches es el camino pedestre más largo del mundo. Discurre por el Este de Norteamérica a lo largo de catorce estados, desde Maine hasta Georgia, y atraviesa algunos de los paisajes más indescriptiblemente bellos del continente. Sin apenas experiencia en senderismo, desafiando las adversidades meteorológicas y geográficas, y menoscabando el peligro de una fauna hostil (desde el improbable oso americano hasta el amenazado mejillón de agua dulce), el socarrón Bill Bryson decide emprender el camino acompañado únicamente de su ácida capacidad descriptiva, una mochila cargada de cosas inútiles y su tosco amigo Katz, cuya forma física es incluso más lamentable que la suya propia. Autor de numerosos títulos de éxito, Bryson demuestra en tono humorístico que la descripción naturalista y el retrato de costumbres pueden convivir perfectamente con la sátira, la militancia medioambiental y la crítica mordaz al sistema en el que vivimos.
Bryson's breezy, self-mocking tone may turn off readers who hanker for another ''Into Thin Air'' or ''Seven Years in Tibet.'' Others, however, 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, one who writes (and walks) with Chaucerian brio.
[Bryson] was often exhausted, his ''brain like a balloon tethered with string, accompanying but not actually part of the body below.'' The reader, by contrast, is rarely anything but exhilarated. And you don't have to take a step.
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To Katz, of course.
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Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire I happened upon a path that vanished into a wood on the edge of town.
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But always the wandering trail ran on.
“You all right?” I said. “Oh, peachy,” he replied. “Just peachy. I don’t know why they couldn’t have put some crocodiles in here and made a real adventure of it.”
The book to which I refer is Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance by a Canadian academic named Stephen Herrero. If this is not the last word on the subject, the I really, really, really do not wish to hear the last word. [Chapter 2]
Black bears rarely attack. But here's the thing. Sometimes they do. All bears are agile, cunning, and immensely strong, and they are always hungry. If they want to kill you and eat you, they can, and pretty much whenever they want. That doesn't happen often, but -- and here is the absolutely salient point -- once would be enough. [Chapter 2]
I wanted very much to be calmed by these assurances but could never quite manage the necessary leap of faith. After noting that just 500 people were attacked and hurt by black bears between 1960 and 1980 -- twenty-five attacks from a resident population of at least half a million bears -- Herrero adds that most of these injuries were not severe. "The typical black bear-inflicted injury," he writes blandly, "is minor and usually involves only a few scratches or light bites." Pardon me, but what exactly is a light bite? Are we talking a playful wrestle and gummy nips? I think not. And is 500 certified attacks really such a modest number, considering how few people go into the North American woods? And how foolish must one be to be reassured by the information that no bear has killed a human being in Vermont or New Hampshire in 200 years? That's not because the bears have signed a treaty, you know. There's nothing to say they won't start a modest rampage tomorrow. [Chapter 2]
"You're going into the woods for weeks and weeks with a person you have barely seen for twenty-five years. Have you really thought this through?" (As if I have ever thought anything through.) [Chapter 2]
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Best of all, these days when I see a mountain, I look at it slowly and appraisingly, with a narrow, knowing gaze, and eyes of chipped granite.
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The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America??majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you??re going to take a hike, it??s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you??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??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 comfortable chair to sit and
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Bill Bryson is a witty writer, and his account of a hike along the Appalachian trail in the summer of 1996 is at times hilarious. He also provides a lot of interesting history, geology and ecology. As he is considering doing the walk, he reads a book about bear attacks and almost decides not to go. He contacts many of his friends to find someone to go with him, and Stephen Katz, a reformed alcoholic and out of shape, decides to come along. Katz's antics are some of the funniest parts of the book. They hike willingly from the start of the trail through Georgia, cross the Tennessee portion, then hike the Shenadoah portion to Front Royal. They started in March and it is now May. They decide to take the summer to attend to other business, but promise to meet in August to do the Maine portion of the trail. Bryson day hikes along snippets of the trail in Pennsylvania (his account of the Centralia anthracite coal fire, burning since 1962, is fascinating), Delaware Water Gap, Massachussets, Vermont and New Hampshire. He almost freezes in a change of weather on Mount Washington. Katz joins him in Maine, and they start across the Hundred Mile Wilderness, the most difficult part of the trail. They walk for several days in very hot weather, climbing nearly vertical rock walls and fording a pond. Katz becomes disoriented with thirst, and lost the trail for a day. After a few more miles, the pair decide that they have had it, find a logging road and hitch a ride to Milo, Me. In the end, Bryson figures he had hiked for 870 miles, about a third of the trail's length. (