Bill Bryson

A Walk in the Woods

Name: A Walk in the Woods
SKU: WALK
Price: 80 USD
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US$80

Illustrated by James Weston Lewis

Full of sweat, tears and side-splitting humour, Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods is a page-turning travelogue and this Folio Society edition is the ultimate companion for fans of the author’s inimitable wit.

A Walk in the Woods

US$80

Book Details

Presentation Box & BindingBound in blocked cloth
Blocked slipcase

Dimensions9½ inches x 6¼ inches

FontSet in Kennerley with Source Sans as display

Pages296 pages

AuthorBill Bryson

Illustrated byJames Weston Lewis

Illustration3 full-colour illustrations, including a double-page spread
Illustrated black & white title-page spread, 10 black & white vignettes and a map

Publication Date17/05/2022

Editor's Notes

Stretching more than 2,000 miles from Georgia to Maine, the Appalachian Trail crosses 14 states, hair-raising mountain peaks and passes, and the natural habitats of wild creatures and even wilder hikers. So, when best-selling travel writer Bill Bryson discovered a path leading to the trail just metres from his house in New Hampshire, his interest was piqued and his diary hastily blocked out for the next few months. Bryson’s riotous account of the tortuous climbs, bland food and physical hardship is also an impassioned plea to preserve the trail and reveals his deep appreciation of the natural world. James Weston Lewis captures both the desperation and jubilation of the hike in his striking colour illustrations and charming black-and-white vignettes, while his newly drawn map shows the sheer scale of this seemingly endless endeavour.

About the Illustrator

James Weston Lewis

James Weston Lewis is an illustrator and printmaker based in London. He studied printmaking at the University of the West of England, and now combines traditional techniques such as woodcut and linocut with digital media in his illustrations, which are often exquisitely detailed and heavily layered, with a limited colour palette. He has illustrated six children’s books, including The Great Fire of London, which was longlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. His clients have included Penguin Random House, Little Brown, Quadrille, Hachette, Nosy Crow, Simon & Schuster, the Financial Times, Radio Times, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Ivy and Johnnie Walker. 

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About the Author

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

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