Reading and Writing the Adirondacks

Bishop's poem "Questions of Travel" is aptly titled, since it does not give any answers. Yet, the trajectory of the poem begin...

While Bill Bryson is explicit of his role as an outsider entering the trail - his inexperience and distance often serving as a subject for ...

Elizabeth Bishop and interconnectivity, and confinement. The Mountain  confronts nature with the language of loss.  It's striking beca...

Bill Bryson's book offered a refreshing, new perspective to our class. As Onno said, Bryson really commits to being an expert amateu...

I found the most interesting part of  A Walk in the Woods  to be how inspiring it is. I don't know what makes the book make me so intere...

Bill Bryson talked a lot about what he and Katz went through while actually hiking on the Appalachian Trail—the long days, the harsh condit...

In her poem, The Moose , Elizabeth Bishop captures the experience of travel beautifully. She colors the piece with fragments of co...