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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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Bill Bryson, known in England as "the funniest travel writer alive," returns to the States and walks the Appalachian Trail, starting in Hanover, New Hampshire.
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In a Sunburned Country
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Bryson, author of A WALK IN THE WOODS and I'M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF, takes on Australia. Bryson's wit and capacity for observation remain in top working condition despite the heat, and his encounters with the locals are engaging in this typical Brysonian look beyond the obvious.
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Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
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From Scandinavia to Turkey, Bryson retraces his youthful, solo backpacking expedition that eventually landed him in England for 20 years. His experience lends wit to this slightly ethnocentric tour of greater Europe.
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
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Bill Bryson lived in Britain for 20 years, then returned with his family to the U.S. Here he writes about the process of re-entry--the shocks, the adjustments, the excesses, and (especially) the funny bits.
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Notes from a Small Island
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Before returning to the United States after 20 years in England, Bryson embarks on a farewell circuit of the country. He integrates history and reflections of his own debut tour of England in this valediction.
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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In this book, bestsellling author Bill Bryson confronts his greatest challenge: to understand--and, if possible, answer--the oldest, biggest questions posed about the universe, everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. High school & older.
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
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In this new installment in the critically acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Bryson explores the life and work of Shakespeare in a typically Brysonian fashion. That is to say, he has crafted a travelogue of sorts, narrating his quest for the Bard.
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
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From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language comes a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century.
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Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
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Bryson contemplates the state of the United States as he travels across the country in a visitation of family holidays and a quest for the apex of small-town America.
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
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In this informative yet curiously funny book Bill Bryson, of travel-writing fame, tackles the quirks and growing pains of the English language.
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The Mother Tongue
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The author of the acclaimed The Lost Continent now steers us through the quirks and byways of the English language. We learn why island, freight, and colonel are spelled in such unphonetic ways, why four has a u in it but forty doesn't, plus bizarre and enlightening facts about some of the patriarchs of this peculiar language.
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A Walk in the Woods
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From the author of "Notes from a Small Island" and "The Lost Continent" comes this humorous report on his walk along the Appalachian Trail. The Trail covers 14 states and over 2000 miles, and stretches along the east coast of America from Maine in the north to Georgia in the south. It is famous for being the longest continuous footpath in the ...
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Made in America
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Travel writer Bill Bryson looks at the language of America and explains the history behind it, including the origins of phrases such as "The real McCoy" and the "G-string"; why two humble bicycle repairmen from Ohio succeeded in mastering manned flight when the world's greatest engineers couldn't get a model aircraft off the ground; why the ...
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Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors
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Covering spelling, capitalization, plurals, hyphens, abbreviations, and foreign names and phrases, this reference is an essential guide to the wonderfully disordered world of the English language.
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A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition
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One of the world's most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer about the universe and civilization.
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Bill Bryson's African Diary
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Invited by CARE International, the author of "In a Sunburned Country" now visits Kenya and observes the many contrasts of Kenyan life, from the country's dramatic geography and famous game reserves to its postcolonial poverty and environmental problems. The author's earnings from this diary, as well as a portion of the profits, go to CARE. of ...
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
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Bill Bryson lived in Britain for 20 years, then returned with his family to the U.S. Here he writes about the process of re-entry--the shocks, the adjustments, the excesses, and (especially) the funny bits.
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Mother tongue : the English language
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How did English, 'treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants' become the undisputed global language? How did words like shampoo, sofa and rowdy (and others drawn from over fifty languages) find their way into our dictionary? In this revealing and often hilarious book, Bill Bryson examines the mother tongue and ...
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Notes from a Big Country
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Des Moines, Iowa born writer Bryson's first success was the travel book "The Lost Continent". After living in England for several years, he wanted to go back to the USA to find the perfect little US town of his past, he lovingly called Amalgam. More travel books followed, in the form of "Neither Here Nor There" (where he travels through Europe), ...
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Down Under
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After tales from the USA and Britain, Bill Bryson turns his roving eye to Australia, the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents. It has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way ...
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Neither Here Nor There
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Bill Bryson shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet and heads for Europe. He retraces his travels as a student twenty years earlier with caustic hilarity and his own unique brand of humour. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson lived in North Yorkshire for many years. First published in 1991 by Secker & Warburg.
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Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words
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Revised, updated, and thoroughly (but not overly) Americanized, this is an essential guide to the wonderfully disordered thing that is the English language. With 1,000 entries, a helpful glossary and guide to pronunciation.
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Troublesome words
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This dictionary provides a straightforward guide to the pitfalls and hotly disputed issues in written English. The entries are discussed with wit and common sense, and illustrated with examples of questionable usage taken from leading British and American newspapers, plus occasional references to masters of the language such as Samuel Johnson and ...
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Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
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On the coattails of THE MOTHER TONGUE, this book explores specifically American issues with the English language. It is in effect a history of the United States from a linguist's perspective.
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Walk About: \"a Walk in the Woods\", \"Down Under\"
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Combined in one volume are Bryson's "Down Under", an account of his memorable walk across Australia, and "A Walk in the Woods", that tells of his lengthy stroll along the longest continuous footpath in the world - The Appalachian Trail, with his old friend Stephen Katz. The Trail stretches along the East Coast of the United States, from Georgia to ...
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