This well-known travel writer with a particular brand of smoothly written wit returned to his native United States after 20 years in Great Britain and decided to rediscover America by backpacking (sort of; very sort of) on the Appalachian Trail with another overwight 40-something. A national best-seller in both bindings and on tape that sent hundreds more hikers to the A.T. and to this day is a favorite "travel" book and library/book club book. First edition; 6" x 9 1/2"; paper; 288 pages; 1999; Broadway Books/Bantam Doubleday Dell.