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The Lost Continent: Travels In Small Town America
Bill Bryson · 1997 · Book Haven
NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)
Abacus 1997 Paperback, 293pp. Bill Bryson drove 14,000 miles in search of the mythical small town of his youth. Instead he found a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger joints; a continent lost to itself through greed, pollution and television, and lost to him be…
The Lost Continent and Neither Here Nor There
Bill Bryson · 1993 · Book Haven
NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)
Secker And Warburg 1993 Hardback, 516pp. 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 f…
The Lost Continent
Bill Bryson · 1999 · Book Haven
NZ$12.50 (€6.26 | $6.90 | £5.23 | ¥1,102)
Black Swan 1999 Paperback, 349pp. 'I came from Des Moines. Somebody had to' And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles…
At Home
Bill Bryson · 2011 · Book Haven
NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)
Transworld Publishers Limited 2011 Paperback, 259pp. Bill Bryson applies his irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit and masterful storytelling to deliver one of the most entertaining and illuminating books ever written about the history of the way we live. Bill Bryson was str…
Notes from a Small Island
Bill Bryson · 1996 · Book Haven
NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)
Black Swan 1996 Paperback, 352pp. After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while, to let his kids experience life in another country, to give his wife a chance to shop until 10 p.m. seven nights a week, and most…
The Road To Little Dribbling: More notes from a small island
Bill Bryson · 2016 · Book Haven
NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)
Penguin Random House 2016 Paperback, 477pp. Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation’s heart and …
Notes From A Big Country
Bill Bryson · 1999 · Book Haven
NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)
Transworld Pub 1999 Paperback. "After nearly two decades in England, Bill Bryson returned to the country of his birth. Gathered here are 18 months' worth of his "Mail on Sunday" columns about that strange phenomena, the American way of life, in which he brings his bemused wit to…
One Summer - America 1927
Bill Bryson · 2013 · Book Haven
NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)
Doubleday 2013 Hardback, 558pp. Britain's favourite writer of narrative non-fiction Bill Bryson travels back in time to a forgotten summer when America came of age, took centre stage, and, in five eventful months, changed the world for ever. In the summer of 1927, America had a …
The Body : A Guide For Occupants
Bill Bryson · 2019 · Book Haven
NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)
Transworld Publshers 2019 Hardback, 456pp. ‘We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.’ Bill Bryson sets o…
Neither Here Nor There: Travels In Europe
Bill Bryson · 1992 · Book Haven
NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)
Minerva 1992 Paperback, 272pp. Bryson brings his unique brand of humour to travel writing as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet and heads for Europe. Travelling with Stephen Katz--also his wonderful sidekick inA Walk in the Woods--he wanders from Hammer…
Down Under
Bill Bryson · 2000 · Book Haven
NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)
Doubleday 2000 Hardback, 340pp. '. Insofar as I had accumulated my expectations of Australia at all in the intervening years, I had thought of it as a kind of alternative southern California, a place of constant sunshine and the cheerful vapidity of a beach lifestyle, but with a…
The Life And Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson · 2006 · Book Haven
NZ$14.50 (€7.27 | $8.01 | £6.06 | ¥1,279)
Doubleday 2006 Hardback, 320pp. Some say that the first hint the Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across…
The Life And Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson · 2007 · Book Haven
NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)
Black Swan 2007 Paperback, 416pp. Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Acr…
Down Under
Bill Bryson · 2001 · Book Haven
NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)
Black Swan 2001 Paperback, 400pp. Alternative cover editions for this ISBN can be found here, here, here and here As his many British fans already know, bearded Yankee butterball Bill Bryson specialises in going to countries we think we know well, only to return with travelogues…
The Life And Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson · 2007 · Book Haven
NZ$12.50 (€6.26 | $6.90 | £5.23 | ¥1,102)
Black Swan 2007 Paperback, 416pp. Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Acr…
Notes from a Big Country
Bill Bryson · 1998 · Book Haven
NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)
Doubleday 1998 Hardback, 328pp. Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes, even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, he upped sticks with Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et…
Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
Bill Bryson · 1997 · Book Haven
NZ$17.50 (€8.77 | $9.67 | £7.32 | ¥1,543)
Minerva 1997 Paperback, 232pp. Bryson brings his unique brand of humour to travel writing as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet and heads for Europe. Travelling with Stephen Katz--also his wonderful sidekick inA Walk in the Woods--he wanders from Hammer…
Notes from a Big Country
Bill Bryson · 1998 · Book Haven
NZ$14.50 (€7.27 | $8.01 | £6.06 | ¥1,279)
Doubleday 1998 Hardback, 328pp. Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes, even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, he upped sticks with Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et…
The Lost Continent - Travels in Small Town America
Bill Bryson · 1990 · Le-livre.com
€14.90 ($16.42 | £12.43 | ¥2,622)
HARPER PERENNIAL, 1990. 1990. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 314 pages - en anglais. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon. ISBN: 0060920084.
Notes From a Big Country
Bill Bryson · 1998 · Bailgate Books Ltd
£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)
Doubleday, London, 1998. First Edition, Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Very Good. 9780385410199 Crisp clean unclipped dust-jacket, fresh covers with gilt lettering on spine, tight binding, clean pages and end-papers . Light shelf-wear on upper and lower edges of dust-jacket. Qua…