Bill Bryson
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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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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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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,...
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Doubleday
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"From one of our most beloved authors, a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home--now richly illustrated with almost four hundred images. A national bestseller, At Home is Bill Bryson's epic chronicle of domestic history. In this lavish new edition, his riveting room-by-room journey of discovery around his house--a Victorian parsonage in southern England--is enhanced by some four hundred carefully selected full color and...
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"Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Moines, Iowa--in the middle of the largest generation in American history--the baby boomers. As one of the funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his all-American childhood for memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. In his case, he ran around his house...
10) At home
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2010
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13 CDs (16 hrs., 33 mins.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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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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AudioGo
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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.
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¿Puede un solo libro convertirse en la perfecta introducción para adentrarse en disciplinas tan dispares como la astronomía, la geología, la física, la química y la biología? ¿Puede un trabajo de divulgación científica ofrecer razonamientos y datos precisos, y al mismo tiempo ser tremendamente entretenido? ¿Puede una única obra narrar la historia de los grandes descubrimientos de la ciencia y contarnos también divertidas anécdotas relacionadas...
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Bill Bryson tiene la rara habilidad de sentirse descolocado donde quiera que vaya, incluso (quizá especialmente) en su tierra natal. Este rasgo de su carácter se hizo muy evidente cuando, después de casi dos décadas en Inglaterra, el escritor de viajes más querido del mundo se enfrentó a la Sra. Bryson, al pequeño Jimmy et al. y todos juntos se trasladaron a vivir al país del que él se había marchado en su juventud.
Por supuesto, había...
14) The body
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Random House, Inc
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2019.
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12 CDs (14 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bill Bryson offers a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of the human physical and neurological makeup.
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Audiogo
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[2013]
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8 CDs (9 hrs., 12 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson traveled around Europe with nothing but a backpack and plenty of youthful enthusiasm. He decided to go back and relive his journey with another trek. From language barriers to finding a decent meal, he shares his experiences as he explores today's Europe.
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BBC Audiobooks America
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p2000
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2 CDs (2 hr., 20 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Hardly anyone ever leaves Des Moines, Iowa. But Bill Bryson did, and after ten years in England he decided to go home--to a foreign country. In an aging Chevrolet Chevette, he drove nearly 14,000 miles through thirty-eight states to compile this hilarious and perceptive state-of-the-nation report on small-town America."--Container.
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One of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife...
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife...