Book, Paperback Bill Bryson Published in: 1999 Publisher: Broadway Books Language: English NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe classic chronicle of aterribly misguided and terribly funny(The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The BodyThe best way of escaping into nature.The New York Times Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakesand to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings. For a start theres the gloriously out-of-shape Stephen Katz, a buddy from Iowa along for the walk. But A Walk in the Woods is more than just a laugh-out-loud hike. Brysons acute eye is a wise witness to