Bryson has earned numerous writing awards, accolades, and honorary doctorate degrees for his contributions to literary culture-and he was also knighted in the United Kingdom. Bryson has also written many nonfiction books on a range of topics, including science and language. Consequently, in the memoir, Bryson often compares his experiences in Europe with those in Appalachia. A Walk in the Woods documents Bryson’s attempt to get reacquainted with his native land after spending many years abroad. Bryson subsequently wrote several travel memoirs based on his experiences traveling in Europe, notably Notes from a Small Island (set in the United Kingdom), before returning to the United States. His first travel memoir, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America documented his experiences exploring the United States in the 1980s. Bryson also began writing memoirs centered on travel. During that time, Bryson worked as a journalist, ending up as high-ranking writer for The Times and editor for The Independent. As a young adult, Bryson dropped out of college to travel in Europe and ended up settling in the United Kingdom. Here, he met his friend Matt Angerer, who features under the pseudonym Stephen Katz as Bryson’s travel companion in A Walk in the Woods. (I don't know that one, says Mary-Ellen, I thought I knew them all.) And in real life? We could ask Mary-Ellen, except one thing we know for sure about Mary-Ellen is she's not called Mary-Ellen, else she'd have sued Bryson's ass off by now.Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa. Except in the book, where he says 'Cunnilingus'. When asked his star-sign by the tiresome Mary-Ellen (played by Kristen Schaal), Bryson's companion Stephen Katz (played by Nick Nolte) says 'Gemini'. Oddly, none of my own long-distance jaunts has been made into a movie with Robert Redford as me, married to Emma Thompson. 'A little voice in my head said: 'Sounds neat! let's do it!'.' To grab a gun and join the revolution to get pregnant with this particular bloke to spend most of next year walking northwards in a wood we decide these in an instant, without any of that overrated process known as rational thought. More serious mountain accounts have sections as long and tedious as the Great Smokey Mountains about motivation and mental health. Oddly, I didn't have the urge to carry on walking past trees all the way to Maine.

Over the three days I walked past approximately one million trees. After two days of looking at trees from underneath I emerged onto a hilltop with a view. I did once do three days in the Appalachians. That's assuming there are some enjoyable bits of the Appalachian Trail. Instead, he skips over all of the bits that are even slightly enjoyable Bryson is determined to avoid this mistake. Most long-distance walk stories skip over the boredom and the really miserable bits.

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