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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America.
by Bill Bryson
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- Paperback
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0060920084
- ISBN 13
- 9780060920081
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About This Item
New York, NY Harper & Row: Perennial Library, 1990. Paperback First Edition Thus (1990); First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. First Edition Thus (1990); First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows only a hint of sunning to the backstrip (the titles and the designs thereon are still bright and clearly legible): the text pages have tanned slightly, due to aging; else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of any creases to the covers. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a couple of minor, unobtrusive flaws. Bright and Clean. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8 x 5.35 x 0.75 inches). 314 pages. Language: English. Weight: 10.5 ounces. Trade Paperback.
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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- Black Cat Hill Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 50789
- Title
- The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America.
- Author
- Bill Bryson
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus (1990); First Printing indicated by a complet
- ISBN 10
- 0060920084
- ISBN 13
- 9780060920081
- Publisher
- Harper & Row: Perennial Library,
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1990.
- Bookseller catalogs
- True Adventure; Travel & Adventure; Americana; Travel Writing; North America Travel;
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