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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Bryson share his experiences hiking the Appalachian Trail with a childhood friend. The two encounter eccentric characters, a blizzard, getting lost, and rude yuppies along the way.
Following his return to 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...
Author
Publisher
Beaufort Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
After graduating from college, Jennifer isn't sure what she wants to do with her life. She is drawn to the Appalachian Trail, a 2175-mile footpath that stretches from Georgia to Maine. Though her friends and family think she's crazy, she sets out alone to hike the trail, hoping it will give her time to think about what she wants to do next. The next four months are the most physically and emotionally challenging of her life. She quickly discovers...
Publisher
Douglas Morse/Heide Estes
Pub. Date
©2004
Description
2000 Miles to Maine is a comic adventure requiring some level of identification with the thru-hiking mentality and the ability to forgive the faults of imperfect characters. Thru-hikers will love it; people who dream about being thru-hikers will-after seeing this film-either change their minds or quit their jobs immediately and hit the trail. People whose ideas of hiking center on the solitude of the remote mountain West may wonder what all of the...
Publisher
Appalachian Trail Conservancy
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"The Appalachian Trail calling you from the couch? Let the official guide for Appalachian Trail thru-hiking for more than a quarter-century show you the path. The Appalachian Long Distance Hiker's Association's Appalachian Trail Thru-Hikers' Companion offers up-to-the-minute knowledge of "the A.T." from current hikers and the Trail. It provides essential information on hiker-oriented services near the Trail. This 29th edition has new maps, revised...
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Bill Bryson, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail: 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular, and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, when the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek is his long-lost former friend Katz, a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer....
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