With his friend Stephen Katz, they set off on a journey which quickly reveals the difficulties of such an undertaking. He has also served as chancellor of Durham University, which renamed its library in his honour as president of the Campaign to Protect Rural England and as the first non-British honorary fellow of the Royal Society. A Walk in the Woods is a humorous and thought-provoking account of Bill Brysons attempt to hike the 2,100 mile Appalachian Trail. In the last two decades Bryson’s broad and infectious curiosity has prompted investigations of Shakespeare, the English language, the human body, and – most ambitiously – A Short History of Nearly Everything, which won the EU Descartes Prize for science communication and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.

His subsequent travelogues include Notes from a Big Country, on his relocation to the US, A Walk in the Woods, on hiking the Appalachian Trail, and Down Under, on a trip across Australia. If youre looking for a good book that will make you laugh out loud until your sides hurt, all while learning about the history of the Appalachian Trail (AT). His first great success was The Lost Continent, an account of a trip round small-town America, and he came to greater prominence with an affectionate account of travels around Britain, Notes from a Small Island. Full of sweat, tears and side-splitting humour, Bill Brysons A Walk in the Woods is a page-turning travelogue and this Folio Society edition is the. Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, but has lived most of his life in the UK.

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