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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
de Bryson, Bill
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- fine/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060161582
- ISBN 13
- 9780060161583
- Librería
-
Batavia, Illinois, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Harper & Row Publishers, 1989-08-01. First Edition. Hardcover. fine/near fine. NOT an ex library book. Clean interior pages. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is not clipped.
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Dorothy Meyer - Bookseller
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 305631
- Título
- The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
- Autor
- Bryson, Bill
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- near fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060161582
- ISBN 13
- 9780060161583
- Editorial
- Harper & Row Publishers
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1989-08-01
Términos de venta
Dorothy Meyer - Bookseller
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Sobre el vendedor
Dorothy Meyer - Bookseller
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Batavia, Illinois
Sobre Dorothy Meyer - Bookseller
Dorothy Meyer - Bookseller was established in 1987 offering collectible and out of print books. We offer a full line of general stock with an emphasis on Americana, Children & Juvenile, Juvenile Series and Military. We are careful in describing the condition of the book and the dust jacket. All dust jackets are protected with mylar covers. All books are subject to prior sale. Member of Midwest Book Hunters.
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