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Bill Bryson returns to his internationally beloved topic, Britain, with his first travel book in 15 years. Over 20 years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his home. The hilarious book he wrote about that journe...
Bill Bryson returns to his internationally beloved topic, Britain, with his first travel book in 15 years. Over 20 years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his home. The hilarious book he wrote about that journe...
"Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As compulsively readable as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody. Bill Bryson ...
Bryson brings his unique brand of humour to travel writing as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet and heads for Europe. Travelling with Stephen Katz - also his wonderful sidekick in A Walk in the Woods - he wanders from Hammerfest in the far north, to Ista...
Beloved globe-trotting travel author Bill Bryson takes on the Land Down Under in this exciting travel narrative. Leaving the well-trodden tour guide path far behind, Bryson manages to elude jellyfish while attempting to surf and observes 'there are more things here that can kill ...
Recounts the authors disconcerting reunion with the United States after living in Britain for two decades.
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100 mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. Known affectionately as the AT, it offers an astonishing landscape of silent forest...
Bryson takes readers on a tour of his house, a rural English parsonage, showing how each room has figured in changes in private life.
The author describes his all-American childhood growing up as a member of the baby boom generation in the heart of Iowa, detailing his rich fantasy life as a superhero known as the Thunderbolt Kid and his remarkably normal 1950s family life.