New york best seller. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail is a 1998 travel book by the writer Bill Bryson, chronicling his attempt to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail during the spring and summer of 1996. For much of his journey, Bryson was accompanied by his friend Matt Angerer (pseudonymously called "Stephen Katz" in the book), who had previously appeared in Bryson's 1991 book Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe. The book was turned I to a movie starting Robert Redford amd Nick Nolte. it has alot of great laughs. Check my closet for other books for your best shipping bang for your buck. I can probably only fit five in a box for under the five pound limit. This book had been read once. smoke free and Pet free home.