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Made In America
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Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood...and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle call his befeathered cap "Macaroni."...
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Bill Bryson
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Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood...and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle call his befeathered cap "Macaroni."...
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Notes From A Small Island
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Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it. After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson-bestsellingauthor of The Mother Tongue and Made in America-decided to returnto the United States. ("I had recently read," Brys...
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Notes From A Small Island |
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Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it. After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson-bestsellingauthor of The Mother Tongue and Made in America-decided to returnto the United States. ("I had recently read," Brys...
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Down Under
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Bill Bryson
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It was as if I had privately discovered life on another planet, or a parallel universe where life was at once recognizably similar but entirely different. I can't tell you how exciting it was. Insofar as I had accumulated my expectations of Australia at all in the intervening years, I had thought of...
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It was as if I had privately discovered life on another planet, or a parallel universe where life was at once recognizably similar but entirely different. I can't tell you how exciting it was. Insofar as I had accumulated my expectations of Australia at all in the intervening years, I had thought of...
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Notes From A Big Country
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An audio cassette featuring some of Bill Bryson's "Mail on Sunday" columns about that strange phenomena, the American way of life, in which he brings his bemused wit to bear on one of the world's craziest countries.
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An audio cassette featuring some of Bill Bryson's "Mail on Sunday" columns about that strange phenomena, the American way of life, in which he brings his bemused wit to bear on one of the world's craziest countries.
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The Lost Continent and Neither Here Nor There Omnibus
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Bill Bryson
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This volume contains humorous accounts of two journeys, one taken across America, the other a trek across Europe.
"The Lost Continent" is 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 beca...
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The Lost Continent and Neither Here Nor There Omnibus |
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Bill Bryson
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This volume contains humorous accounts of two journeys, one taken across America, the other a trek across Europe.
"The Lost Continent" is 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 beca...
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A Short History Of Nearly Everything
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Bill Bryson
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One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
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A Short History Of Nearly Everything |
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Bill Bryson
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InCirculation
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One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
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In A Sunburned Country
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Bill Bryson
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A perilous journey into the lethal but luscious Land Down Under is filled with news and knowledge about the Aborigines, exiled British convicts, careless prime ministers, eating snakes the size of catcher's mitts, avoiding killer seashells, and preparing for cyclones. Four English schoolchildren fin...
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In A Sunburned Country |
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InCirculation
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A perilous journey into the lethal but luscious Land Down Under is filled with news and knowledge about the Aborigines, exiled British convicts, careless prime ministers, eating snakes the size of catcher's mitts, avoiding killer seashells, and preparing for cyclones. Four English schoolchildren fin...
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The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid
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Bill Bryson
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From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century. A book that delivers on the promise that it is "laugh-out-loud funny." Some say that the f...
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The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid |
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Bill Bryson
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Random House
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InCirculation
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From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century. A book that delivers on the promise that it is "laugh-out-loud funny." Some say that the f...
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