And that would be Stephen Katz (NICK NOLTE), a man who gets wind of Bill's plan and, despite giving up alcohol long ago, would probably be the last person who should consider such a trek. All of them decline, but he does get a call from a former friend he hasn't seen since their days of traveling through Europe decades ago.
That's despite an annual average of two thousand or so people trying to cover those 2,110-plus miles, but only around ten percent succeeding, most at a younger age than where he finds himself now.Ĭatherine tries to remind him of that and reluctantly agrees to let him embark on that journey, but only if he can convince a friend to join him.
Tired of his professional life of recent being just writing forewords for others' works and not being happy about getting older and watching friends die, Bill suddenly gets the idea to hike the Appalachian Trail. Oddly enough, he's never written about any American locales, even with the Appalachian Trail being within walking distance of his home. In the company of his friend Stephen Katz (last seen in the bestselling Neither Here nor There), Bill Bryson set off to hike the Appalachian Trail, the longest continuous footpath in the world.Īhead lay almost 2,200 miles of remote mountain wilderness filled with bears, moose, bobcats, rattlesnakes, poisonous plants, disease-bearing tics, the occasional chuckling murderer and - perhaps most alarming of all - people whose favourite pastime is discussing the relative merits of the external-frame backpack.įacing savage weather, merciless insects, unreliable maps and a fickle companion whose profoundest wish was to go to a motel and watch The X-Files, Bryson gamely struggled through the wilderness to achieve a lifetime's ambition - not to die outdoors.Ī Walk in the Woods is now a major feature film starring Robert Redford, Emma Thompson and Nick Offerman.Dramedy: Two old friends, who haven't seen each other for decades, team up to walk the Appalachian Trail.īill Bryson (ROBERT REDFORD) is a somewhat famous and respected author and travel writer who lives in New Hampshire with his wife, Catherine (EMMA THOMPSON).
'Short of doing it yourself, the best way of escaping into nature is to read a book like A Walk in the Woods.' New York Times
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