Title: Amusing and informative -- a really fun book to read.
Product review: I've backpacked about 200 miles in the past two years, including parts of the Appalachian Trail in Virginia. I identified readily with the range of emotions and observations the author so perceptively describes in this book -- the exhiliration and the dread, the truly comical as well as the weird. I recognized it all.I had read an excerpt of one of the funnier passages of this book and expected it to be all and consistently the same. I was pleasantly delighted to read the relatively more sober and informative sections as well. The bibliography he thoughtfully produces at the end offers the promise of many more evenings of informative reading.After completing his book I am left with a quandary -- which is more compelling the hilarity and serenity he describes or the arduousness and perils of the trail. I've actually considered hiking the Trail in the next couple of years, but now I don't know.
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