Within less than a mile of their departure point, as groups of hikers overtake and pass them, they begin to grasp the difficulty of their ambition. Bill's wife is unhappy with his choice, but relents. Despite appearances, Stephen claims to be fit enough for the challenge. Finally, he is contacted by Stephen Katz, an old friend who offers to be a hiking companion. Everyone declines his invitation some declare him insane. He agrees and searches for a friend willing to join him. She relents on condition that he not travel alone. Catherine objects, presenting many accounts of accidents and murders on the trail. Afterwards, he takes a stroll up to the nearby Appalachian Trail, and suddenly decides he will hike its entire length. Bryson, however, has no such plans.īryson and his wife Catherine attend a funeral. A television interview reports that he has published several popular books and there is speculation he will be writing more. Now in his 60s, he has been living there peacefully.

Plot Īfter living in the UK for ten years, author Bill Bryson has moved back to his hometown in New Hampshire. Based on the 1998 book of the same name by Bill Bryson, it was released on September 2, 2015, by Broad Green Pictures. He has also served as chancellor of Durham University, which renamed its library in his honour as president of the Campaign to Protect Rural England and as the first non-British honorary fellow of the Royal Society.A Walk in the Woods is a 2015 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Ken Kwapis and starring Robert Redford, Nick Nolte and Emma Thompson.

In the last two decades Bryson’s broad and infectious curiosity has prompted investigations of Shakespeare, the English language, the human body, and – most ambitiously – A Short History of Nearly Everything, which won the EU Descartes Prize for science communication and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. His subsequent travelogues include Notes from a Big Country, on his relocation to the US, A Walk in the Woods, on hiking the Appalachian Trail, and Down Under, on a trip across Australia.

His first great success was The Lost Continent, an account of a trip round small-town America, and he came to greater prominence with an affectionate account of travels around Britain, Notes from a Small Island.

Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, but has lived most of his life in the UK.

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