Here is a book that will make you envious of Vermonters when the snow falls - - if you are not already a citizen of this most engaging and individual of American states.

For reasons even he didn't understand, Bill Bryson decided in 1996 to walk the 2,100-mile Appalachian trail. Winding from Georgia to Maine, this uninterrupted 'hiker's highway' sweeps through the heart of some of America's most beautiful and treacherous terrain

text and photos capturing the essence of Vermont.

Some men, when they lose their jobs and their wives, take to drink and go to the dogs. When William Least Heat Moon lost his, he took to the road and wrote a book about his travels in order to find out where he was trying to arrive.

This 1923 volume is a classic, freezing in time the rural beauty of New Hampshire through photographs, sketches, and written descriptions.

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable...

This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

The author describes his experiences during the two years he spent walking across the United States, from Alfred, New York, to the Gulf of Mexico.