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A walk in woods book5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Would get me fit after years of waddlesome sloth. Thru-hiking the AT, he wrote in the opening pages of the ensuing book, He says the idea came to him while out for a walk in Hanover, when he noticed the Appalachian Trail heading up into the woods on the outskirts of town. Bryson needed a journey to undertake, one with a distinctly American character. His next book would be targeted to an American audience, but his stock in trade was the humorous travel narrative, and he had already published, to a very mixed reception, his take on the classic American road trip. By the mid-1990s, Bill Bryson was an established bestseller in his adopted home of Great Britain, but success had not come so readily in the US market. ![]()
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