A Walk in the Woods

Black Swan movie edition, 2015. Shelf wear and creasing to jacket and spine.
The longest continuous footpath in the world, the Appalachian Trail stretches along the East Coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine, through some of the most arresting and celebrated landscapes in America. At the age of 44, in the company of his friend Stephen Katz, Bill set off to hike through the vast tangled woods which have been frightening sensible people for 300 years. Ahead lay almost 2200 miles of remote mountain wilderness filled with bears, moose, bobcats, rattlesnakes, poisonous plants, disease-bearing ticks, the occasional chuckling murderer and, perhaps most alarming of all, people whose favourite pastime is discussing the relative merits of the external-frame backpack...