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Bill Bryson,Bill Bryson
Tackling everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson’s inimitable storytelling skill makes the why, how, and, just as importantly, the who of scientific discovery entertaining and…
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With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humor, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey along…
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…
Simplified Chinese edition of Notes from a Small Island
Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal Stephenson amongst others, this beautiful…
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Reissued with a new introduction 2016 –Title page verso.
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Bill Bryson, author of the national bestseller The Mother Tongue, takes an informed and affectionate look at the history of the U.S. from the perspective of language and popular culture..
Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides readers through the human body–how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately) the ways…
A collection of the best travel writing by American authors written in 2015
Now in paperback comes the affectionate, hysterically funny tour of America’s most outrageous absurdities from a master humorist. Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are his hallmark, Bryson, who recently…
Bill Bryson lives to tell the story of his exploits in Australia, where A-bombs go off unnoticed, prime ministers disappear into the surf, and cheery citizens coexist with the world’s…
The author retells the story of one truly fabulous year in the life of his native country; a narrative featuring such outsized American heroes as Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, and…
In 1995, Iowa native Bill Bryson took a motoring trip around Britain to explore that green and pleasant land. The uproarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, is…
Bill Bryson’s first travel book opened with the immortal line, ‘I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.’ In this deeply funny and personal memoir, he travels back in time…
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Tells the story of how American arose out of the English language, and along the way, de-mythologizes his native land - explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods…
A laugh-out-loud account of an outrageously rugged hike–by the beloved comic author of Lost Continent and Notes from a Small Island.
The author of A Walk in the Woods traces the Big Bang through the rise of civilization, documenting his work with a host of the world’s most advanced scientists and…
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…
Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body–how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately) the…
After 10 years in England, Bill Bryson returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind…
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…
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Anyone who has been to Europe or dreamed of going will recognize the engaging blend of admiration and fascinated bewilderment that Bryson brings to this sharp and very funny account…
An account of one man’s rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town.
Bryson takes readers on a tour of his house, a rural English parsonage, showing how each room has figured in changes in private life.
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This collection of travel articles includes contributions written by writers such as Bill Buford and Ryszard Kapuscinski, and range across myriads from New York’s Central Park to to the Saharan…
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can’t contain his curiosity about the world around him…
(Compare this with the Pennine Way, which is a mere 250 miles long.) It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in America, as well as through…
Having seen Europe with a rucksack on his back 20 years earlier, Bill Bryson decides to make a sentimental journey, to wander through the minefields of linguistic confusion in search…
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson took the decision to move back to the USA. Before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire, he took one last trip…
It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life - a large portion of it quite…
An account of one man’s rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town. Instead he finds a continent that is doubly lost: lost to itself because it…
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Imagined by one of the world’s foremost Newton scholars, this fictionalized conversation presents the essential biography of one of the greatest scientific minds of all time
Voted in a BBC poll the book, is an insight into all that is best and worst about Britain.
One of the world’s finest and funniest writers goes on a quest to discover the mysteries of the universe–and comprehend the fascinating, eccentric people who devote their lives to unraveling…
The world’s most popular travel writer takes a humorous look at just what it means to be American , from the Pilgrim Fathers to the hamburger and beyond.
In the company of his friend Stephen Katz (last seen in the bestselling Neither Here nor There), Bill Bryson set off to hike the Appalachian Trail, the longest continuous footpath…
Whether discussing the strange appeal of breakfast pizza or the jaw-slackening direness of American TV, the author brings his inimitable brand of bemused wit to bear on that strangest of…
A stage adaptation of Bill Bryson's smash-hit memoir, one of the nation's most beloved books, and a brilliant dissection of the enduring quirks of our small island.