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The Lost Continent
by Bryson, Bill
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- Hardcover
- first
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New Milford, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Second printing.
An early travel classic from Bryson, full of his wit and grumpy observations about small town America.
Following the path of family vacations he took as a kid, he attempts to find the heart of America, the perfect town, where "Bing Crosby would be the priest, Jimmy Stewart the Mayor, Fred MacMurray the High School Principal".
Hardcover with jacket.
Synopsis
Bill Bryson's very first travel book, a sidesplittingly funny road trip around America. "I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of trim and sunny place where the films of his youth were set. Instead, his search led him to Anywhere, USA; a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels, and hamburger outlets populated by lookalike people with a penchant for synthetic fibers. Traveling around thirty-eight of the lower states - united only in their mind-numbingly dreary uniformity - he discovered a continent that was doubly lost; lost to itself because blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes, and television; lost to him because he had become a stranger in his own land. The Lost Continent is a classic of travel literature - hilariously, stomach-achingly funny, yet tinged with heartache - and the book that first staked Bill Bryson's claim as the most beloved writer of his generation.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christopher de Lotbiniere Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2076
- Title
- The Lost Continent
- Author
- Bryson, Bill
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper and Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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