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The Lost Continent(Travels in Small Town America) & Neither Here Nor There. (Travels in Europe). Two of the Funniest Travel Books Ever Written
by Bryson, Bill
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- ISBN 10
- 0436201305
- ISBN 13
- 9780436201301
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London, United Kingdom: Secker & Warburg. The Lost Continent is the story of Bryson's return to the land of his youth. Aften ten years in England he wanted to return to the magical places of his childhood. So he borrowed his mother's car and set out into America. His account of his journey has become a classic - savagely funny and often unbearable poignant. In Neither Here Nor There Bryson is in Europe, travelling the length and breadth of the continent from Hammerfest in Norway to Istanbul. Fluent in at least one language, a back-pack on his shoulders and a tight fist on his wallet., Bryson is an hilarious guide, dissecting peoples and cultures with a scalpel-sharp wit. 498 pp. Slight shelf wear to top corners of D/J.We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Fine. Cloth. Reprint. 1997.
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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- Title
- The Lost Continent(Travels in Small Town America) & Neither Here Nor There. (Travels in Europe). Two of the Funniest Travel Books Ever Written
- Author
- Bryson, Bill
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0436201305
- ISBN 13
- 9780436201301
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- NON-FICTION TRAVEL
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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