Title: A book about the AT from someone who didn't really hike it?
Product review: I picked this book up based on library review site as a "Librarian Recommended" and boy, what a disappointment. I have read several other accounts of AT hikes and this one was the worst. If Bryson had anything positive to say it was lost between the complaining about everyone he met along the way, the "politics" of the agencies/people involved with the trail, and/or scaring the pants off of people who have never hiked the trail with bear maulings/massacres by people/lightening strikes. And, given the fact that the author barely hiked any of the trail to begin with was never mentioned on the front/inside cover. He skipped beginning parts of the trail because he had nothing but derogatory things to say about anyone from the south and was disappointed in the price of a cheeseburger. There are plenty of other wonderful accounts of the AT - skip this one!
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