Bill Bryson
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Pub. Date
2019.
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"Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As compulsively readable as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody. 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)...
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The hilarious and loving sequel to a hilarious and loving classic of travel writing: Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson s valentine to his adopted country of England In 1995 Bill Bryson got into his car and took a weeks-long farewell motoring trip about England before moving his family back to the United States. The book about that trip, Notes from a Small Island, is uproarious and endlessly endearing, one of the most acute and affectionate portrayals...
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Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. This time in Australia.
His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest,...
His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest,...
6) At home
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
13 CDs (16 hrs., 33 mins.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bryson takes readers on a tour of his house, a rural English parsonage, showing how each room has figured in the evolution of private life.
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Publisher
AudioGo
Pub. Date
2013
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15 CDs ( min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bill Bryson de-mythologizes his native land, explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, how Americans were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up ? as well as exposing the true origins of the G-string, the original $64,000 question, and Dr. Kellogg of cornflakes fame.
8) The body
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Publisher
Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
12 CDs (14 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bill Bryson offers a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of the human physical and neurological makeup.
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
506 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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As editor of "Seeing Further," Bryson has rounded up an extraordinary roster of scientists who write and writers who know science in order to celebrate 350 years of the Royal Society, Britain's scientific national academy. The contributors include Margaret Atwood, Steve Jones, Richard Dawkins, James Gleick, Richard Holmes, and Neal Stephenson, among many others, on subjects ranging from metaphysics to nuclear physics, from the threatened endtimes...