Listen to our Movies Meet Book club Podcast as Hollister and O'Toole discuss the movie and book. See the 2015 movie with Robert Redford and Nick Nolte. Fresh, illuminating, and uproariously funny, A Walk in the Woods showcases Bill Bryson at his very best. This amusingly ill-conceived adventure brings Bryson to the height of his comic powers, but his acute eye also observes an astonishing landscape of silent forests, sparkling lakes, and other national treasures that are often ignored or endangered. Accompanied by his infamous crony, Stephen Katz, Bryson risks snake bite and hantavirus to trudge up unforgiving mountains, plod through swollen rivers, and yearn for cream sodas and hot showers. One of those hikers is Bill Bryson, prolific humor/travel writer. Winding from Georgia to Maine, this uninterrupted 'hiker's highway' sweeps through the heart of some of America's most beautiful and treacherous terrain. A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson 32 Books Guaranteed To Make You. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trailįor reasons even he didn't understand, Bill Bryson decided in 1996 to walk the 2,100-mile Appalachian trail.
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