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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

by Bryson, Bill

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ISBN 10
0060161582
ISBN 13
9780060161583
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Harper & Row Publishers, 1989. First edition of author's first book. Quarter cloth hard cover with dust jacket, VG/VG. Prior owner's gift note on half-title page, otherwise clean and unmarked copy. Light scattered foxing to top edge. Dust jacket is price-clipped, lightly rubbed, and offered in new mylar cover. 314pp., index, map illustrated endpapers.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

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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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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
24718
Title
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
Author
Bryson, Bill
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0060161582
ISBN 13
9780060161583
Publisher
Harper & Row Publishers
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1989
Size
8vo - 8" - 9" Tall

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