A Walk in the Woods | Literary Precedents
A Walk in the Woods, along with Bryson's other accounts of his wanderings, fit into one of the oldest and most popular genres of American literature: the travel narrative. Bryson's wry yet incisive look at America via its longest walk is somewhat different from narratives like Washington Irving's The Sketch Book (1820) and Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad (1869). Both of these titles (the latter of which was Twain's best selling working during his lifetime) relate the author's experience in Europe. Until quite recently, the cost of traveling to the old country made it...
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