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Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
6th ed.
w. 32 maps
Hobby/Freizeit
Abmessung: 20 cm
Von Karlin, Adam

Beauty is the name of the game here. From fashion models to deco hotels, beach sunrises to alluring islands, South Florida is an aesthetic masterpiece.

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Dieser Titel ist in englischer Sprache.
Bill Bryson verdient seinen Lebensunterhalt mit Reisen, und indem er anschließend darüber schreibt. In The Lost Continent beschreibt er die Reisen seiner Kindheit, in Neither Here nor There verfolgt er die Route zurück, die er als junger Backpacker in Europa durchquerte. Als der nach Großbritannien verpflanzte Amerikaner sich entschied, nach Hause zurückzukehren, machte er eine Abschieds-Wanderung durch die britische Landschaft und schrieb Notes from a Small Island. Sobald er wieder auf amerikanischem Boden war und sich wohlbehalten in New Hampshire niedergelassen hatte, hörte er noch einmal den Ruf der Straße -- nur war es dieses mal ein Trail, ein Pfad. Der Appalachian Trail, um genau zu sein.

In A Walk in the Woods behandelt Bill Bryson ein für ihn völlig neues Thema: die amerikanische Wildnis. Nur von seinem alten College-Kameraden Stephen Katz begleitet, bricht Bryson an einem Morgen im März im Norden von Georgia mit der Absicht auf, die gesamten 2.100 Meilen zum Ende des Trails auf den Mount Katahdin in Maine zu laufen. Wenn es nichts anderes ist, dann ist A Walk in the Woods der positive Beweis dafür, daß der Weg das Ziel ist.

Wenn Bryson und Katz ihre formlosen Hintern mittleren Alters über Berg und Tal schleppen, wird dem Leser eine sowohl sehr lustige und persönliche Denkschrift als auch eine wunderbare Chronik des Trails, der Personen, die ihn erschaffen haben, und der Plätze, durch die er führt, offenbart. Egal, ob man selbst eines Tages einen Trip wie diesen planen will, oder einfach nur darüber lesen mag, die Lektüre von A Walk in the Woods ist eine tolle Möglichkeit, einen Nachmittag zu verbringen.

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Bill Bryson has made a living out of travelling and then writing about it. In The Lost Continent he re-created the road trips of his childhood; in Neither Here nor There he retraced the route he followed as a young backpacker traversing Europe. When this American transplant to Britain decided to return home, he made a farewell walking tour of the British countryside and produced Notes from a Small Island. Once back on American soil and safely settled in New Hampshire, Bryson once again hears the siren call of the open road--only this time it's a trail. The Appalachian Trail, to be exact. In A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson tackles what is, for him, an entirely new subject: the American wilderness. Accompanied only by his old college friend Stephen Katz, Bryson starts out one March morning in north Georgia, intending to walk the entire 2,100 miles to the trail's end atop Maine's Mount Katahdin.

If nothing else, A Walk in the Woods is proof positive that the journey is the destination. As Bryson and Katz haul their out-of-shape, middle-aged bodies over hill and dale, the reader is treated to both a very funny personal memoir and a delightful chronicle of the trail, the people who created it, and the places it passes through. Whether you plan to make a trip like this one yourself one day or only care to read about it, A Walk in the Woods is a great way to spend an afternoon. --Alix Wilber

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Bill Bryson has made a living out of traveling and then writing about it. In The Lost Continent he re-created the road trips of his childhood; in Neither Here nor There he retraced the route he followed as a young backpacker traversing Europe. When this American transplant to Britain decided to return home, he made a farewell walking tour of the British countryside and produced Notes from a Small Island. Once back on American soil and safely settled in New Hampshire, Bryson once again hears the siren call of the open road--only this time it's a trail. The Appalachian Trail, to be exact. In A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson tackles what is, for him, an entirely new subject: the American wilderness. Accompanied only by his old college buddy Stephen Katz, Bryson starts out one March morning in north Georgia, intending to walk the entire 2,100 miles to trail's end atop Maine's Mount Katahdin.

If nothing else, A Walk in the Woods is proof positive that the journey is the destination. As Bryson and Katz haul their out-of-shape, middle-aged butts over hill and dale, the reader is treated to both a very funny personal memoir and a delightful chronicle of the trail, the people who created it, and the places it passes through. Whether you plan to make a trip like this one yourself one day or only care to read about it, A Walk in the Woods is a great way to spend an afternoon. --Alix Wilber

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