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Bill Bryson's first travel book opened with the immortal line, “I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.” In this hilarious new memoir, he travels back to explore the kid he once was and the weird and wonderful world of 1950s America. He modestly claims that this is a book about not very much: about being small and getting much larger slowly. But for the rest of us, it is a laugh-out-loud book that will speak volumes--especially to anyone who has ever been young.
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years
ISBN-10: 0553456504
ISBN-13: 9780553456509
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After living in Britain for two decades, Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly three million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted by a new-and-improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, 24-hour dental floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item.
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Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
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A Walk in the Woods
Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
ISBN-10: 0553455923
ISBN-13: 9780553455922
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A Walk in the Woods is more than just a laugh-out-loud hike. Bryson's acute eye is a wise witness to this fragile and beautiful trail, and as he tells its fascinating history, he makes a moving plea for the conservation of America's last great wilderness. An adventure, a comedy, a lament, and a celebration, A Walk in the Woods is destined to become a modern classic of travel literature.
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Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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In a Sunburned Country
ISBN-10: 0553502557
ISBN-13: 9780553502558
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Taking listeners on a rollicking ride far beyond packaged-tour routes, In a Sunburned Country introduces a place where interesting things happen all the time. Leaving no Vegemite unsavored, listeners will accompany Bryson as he dodges jellyfish while learning to surf at Bondi Beach, discovers a fish that can climb trees, dehydrates in deserts where temperatures leap to 140 degrees, and tells the true story of the rejected Danish architect who designed the Sydney Opera House.
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
ISBN-10: 0739302949
ISBN-13: 9780739302941
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A Short History of Nearly Everything is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.
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