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w. ill. by David Cook. Hobby/Freizeit Gewicht: 240 gr / Abmessung: 20 cm Von Bryson, Bill Dieser Titel ist in englischer Sprache. Bill Bryson verdient seinen Lebensunterhalt mit Reisen, und indem er anschließend darüber schreibt. In The Lost Continent beschreibt er die Reisen seiner Kindheit, in Neither Here nor There verfolgt er die Route zurück, die er als junger Backpacker in Europa durchquerte. Als der nach Großbritannien verpflanzte Amerikaner sich entschied, nach Hause zurückzukehren, machte er eine Abschieds-Wanderung durch die britische Landschaft und schrieb Notes from a Small Island. Sobald er wieder auf amerikanischem Boden war und sich wohlbehalten in New Hampshire niedergelassen hatte, hörte er noch einmal den Ruf der Straße - nur war es dieses mal ein Trail, ein Pfad. Der Appalachian Trail, um genau zu sein. In A Walk in the Woods behandelt Bill Bryson ein für ihn völlig neues Thema: die amerikanische Wildnis. Nur von seinem alten College-Kameraden Stephen Katz begleitet, bricht Bryson an einem Morgen im März im Norden von Georgia mit der Absicht auf, die gesamten 2.100 Meilen zum Ende des Trails auf den Mount Katahdin in Maine zu laufen. Wenn es nichts anderes ist, dann ist A Walk in the Woods der positive Beweis dafür, daß der Weg das Ziel ist. Wenn Bryson und Katz ihre formlosen Hintern mittleren Alters über Berg und Tal schleppen, wird dem Leser eine sowohl sehr lustige und persönliche Denkschrift als auch eine wunderbare Chronik des Trails, der Personen, die ihn erschaffen haben, und der Plätze, durch die er führt, offenbart. Egal, ob man selbst eines Tages einen Trip wie diesen planen will, oder einfach nur darüber lesen mag, die Lektüre von A Walk in the Woods ist eine tolle Möglichkeit, einen Nachmittag zu verbringen. Bill Bryson has made a living out of travelling and then writing about it. In The Lost Continent he re-created the road trips of his childhood; in Neither Here nor There he retraced the route he followed as a young backpacker traversing Europe. When this American transplant to Britain decided to return home, he made a farewell walking tour of the British countryside and produced Notes from a Small Island. Once back on American soil and safely settled in New Hampshire, Bryson once again hears the siren call of the open road-only this time it's a trail. The Appalachian Trail, to be exact. In A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson tackles what is, for him, an entirely new subject: the American wilderness. Accompanied only by his old college friend Stephen Katz, Bryson starts out one March morning in north Georgia, intending to walk the entire 2,100 miles to the trail's end atop Maine's Mount Katahdin. If nothing else, A Walk in the Woods is proof positive that the journey is the destination. As Bryson and Katz haul their out-of-shape, middle-aged bodies over hill and dale, the reader is treated to both a very funny personal memoir and a delightful chronicle of the trail, the people who created it, and the places it passes through. Whether you plan to make a trip like this one yourself one day or only care to read about it, A Walk in the Woods is a great way to spend an afternoon. -Alix Wilber Your initial reaction to Bill Bryson's reading of A Walk in the Woods may well be "Egads! What a bore!" But by sentence three or four, his clearly articulated, slightly adenoidal, British/American-accented speech pattern begins to grow on you and becomes quite engaging. You immediately get a hint of the humor that lies ahead, such as one of the innumerable reasons he longed to walk as many of the 2,100 miles of the Appalachian Trail as he could. "It would get me fit after years of waddlesome sloth" is delivered with glorious deadpan flair. By the time our storyteller recounts his trip to the Dartmouth Co-op, suffering serious sticker shock over equipment prices, you'll be hooked. When Bryson speaks for the many Americans he encounters along the way-in various shops, restaurants, airports, and along the trail-he launches into his American accent, which is whiny and full of hard r's. And his southern intonations are a hoot. He's even got a special voice used exclusively when speaking for his somewhat surprising trail partner, Katz. In the 25 years since their school days together, Katz has put on quite a bit of weight. In fact, "he brought to mind Orson Welles after a very bad night. He was limping a little and breathing harder than one ought to after a walk of 20 yards." Katz often speaks in monosyllables, and Bryson brings his limited vocabulary humorously to life. One of Katz's more memorable utterings is "flung," as in flung most of his provisions over the cliff because they were too heavy to carry any farther. The author has thoroughly researched the history and the making of the Appalachian Trail. Bryson describes the destruction of many parts of the forest and warns of the continuing perils (both natural and man-made) the Trail faces. He speaks of the natural beauty and splendor as he and Katz pass through, and he recalls clearly the serious dangers the two face during their time together on the trail. So, A Walk in the Woods is not simply an out-of-shape, middle-aged man's desire to prove that he can still accomplish a major physical task; it's also a plea for the conservation of America's last wilderness. Bryson's telling is a knee-slapping, laugh-out-loud funny trek through the woods, with a touch of science and history thrown in for good measure. (Running time: 360 minutes, four cassettes) -Colleen Preston Leserbewertungen: Kategorien, in denen dieser Artikel enthalten ist:
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