![]() ![]() But the interactions between him and Katz, and others they meet along the way are pure comedy gold. When Katz arrives, overweight, a recovering alcoholic, and in worse shape than Bryson himself, you know that the terrain may not just be the greatest challenge they are going to face …īryson interweaves the hike with short sections of natural history and ecology, which never outstay their welcome. ![]() (If you’ve read Neither Here nor There, you’ll know they ended up despising each other after that trip to Europe.) There were no takers for months, until a call out of the blue, and Bryson found himself approaching the challenge with his former travelling companion, Stephen Katz. (All those tales of hikers killed by bears, or murdered by fellow humans.) He advertised for a hiking companion. He started researching, and quickly decided that this was no undertaking to be taken on alone. Inspiration came from the trail itself, which runs very close to his home in Hanover. Which is something that the intrepid Bill Bryson set out to do when in his mid-forties. That way I can kid myself that I, too, have walked (some of) the 2100 miles of the Appalachian Trail. I’ve never bought a paper copy because I’m waiting for someone to publish a special edition complete with pictures of the locations. Time now to introduce you to the best book I’ve never read! Though I have listened to William Roberts’s audio narration 3 times. ![]()
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