Notes From A Big Country

Bill Bryson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

1999
Black Swan (Verlag)
978-0-552-99786-7 (ISBN)

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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 phenomena - the American way of life.

From perfectly formed potatoes to adulterous US presidents, and from domestic upsets to millennial fever, Bill Bryson just cannot resist airing his opinions and standing up for his (mostly) law-abiding fellow American citizens. But of course after twenty years in England, he is now back on the other side of the pond, and is obviously having a little trouble finding his true American self again. After vigorous exercise on the Appalachian Trail comes this edited collection of Bryson's most splenetic comic pieces culled from his humorous regular column in the Mail on Sunday.

Bill Bryson is much loved for his bestselling travel books, from The Lost Continent to Down Under, but Notes from a Small Island has earned a particularly special place in the nation's heart (a national poll for World Book Day in 2003 voted it the book that best represents Britain). His acclaimed A Short History of Nearly Everything won the Aventis Prize for Science Books and the Descartes Science Communication Prize. He has now returned to live in the UK with his wife and family. www.billbryson.co.uk

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.9.1999
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 199 mm
Gewicht	298 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
ISBN-10	0-552-99786-2 / 0552997862
ISBN-13	978-0-552-99786-7 / 9780552997867
Zustand	Neuware