The Lost Continent; Travels in Small Town America and Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
de Bryson, Bill
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- Tapa dura
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- Very Good Condition/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0436201305
- ISBN 13
- 9780436201301
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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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- Librería
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 0110701
- Título
- The Lost Continent; Travels in Small Town America and Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
- Autor
- Bryson, Bill
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good Condition
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0436201305
- ISBN 13
- 9780436201301
- Editorial
- Secker & Warburg
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1996
- Palabras clave
- BZDB2 Bill Bryson -- Travel Writer -- America -- Europe Travel & Places; America; Europe; Journalism; Unbranded ISBN: 0436201305 EAN: 9780436201301 Bryson, Bill The Lost Continent; Travels in Small Town America and Neither Here Nor There: Travels in
- Catálogos del vendedor
- America; Journalism; Europe;
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Categorías de este libro
- Países y culturas Europa
- Países y culturas Norteamérica Estados Unidos
- Medios de comunicación Periodismo
- Viajes y exploración Viaje Viajes a Estados Unidos
- Biografías y ensayos Humor
- Medios de comunicación Industria de los medios de comunicación
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