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source → interview excerpt: Bryson has deep roots in Des Moines, where he was born and raised—he attended Callanan and Roosevelt schools with Angerer—and at Drake, where his mother earned her bachelor’s degree in 1936. He enrolled at Drake

excerpt: The official Appalachian Trail Guides, a set of eleven books each dealing with a particular state or section, variously give the length as 2,144 miles, 2,147 miles, 2,159 miles, and “more than 2,150 miles.”

source → interview ‍ ‍- Angerer (aka Stephen Katz ) excerpts: At Christmas, I put notes in lots of cards inviting people to come with me on the trail, if only part of the way. Nobody responded, of course. Then one day in late February

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book info Twenty years ago [in 1996], Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever writt

excerpt: … I considered the possibility of traveling through Britain along my newly discovered line (the Bryson Line, as I would like it now to become generally known, since I was the one who discovered it), but I could see almost at once t

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“Whenever I discovered something which was noteworthy,

I have felt it my duty to put down what I had discovered,

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Letter of June 12, 1716

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