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Made In America - Bryson Bill

Made In America

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Buch | Softcover
592 Seiten
1998
Black Swan (Verlag)
978-0-552-99805-5 (ISBN)
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An entertaining, anecdotal look at the origins of language and ideas in the USA. Bryson explains why two bicycle repairmen from Ohio succeeded in mastering manned flight, why the assassination of President Garfield led to the invention of air conditioning, and many other improbable but true facts.
Bill Bryson turns away from the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture. In Made in America, 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, why Americans say 'lootenant' and 'Toosday', 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. Buy this book at once and have a nice day!

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 2.4.1998
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 128 x 199 mm
Gewicht 426 g
Themenwelt Literatur Comic / Humor / Manga
Reisen Reiseberichte Nord- / Mittelamerika
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-552-99805-2 / 0552998052
ISBN-13 978-0-552-99805-5 / 9780552998055
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