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Bill Bryson's pleasant “Walk”

Scholars and Rogues - Jan 16, 2012
I'm sure I'm not the only person who's read Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods and had a burning urge to go hike the Appalachian Trail. Of course, that might also have something to do with the fact that my girlfriend is heading there today to hike part ...

Heritage: why we all have a part to play

The Guardian (blog) - Jan 23, 2012
Bill Bryson once said: "History matters because it reminds us who we are, what we've done and what we might do better." It's central to our sense of place and identity – whether we learn from the past as we go forward into the future.

Salman Rushdie And The Jaipur Literature Festival

Huffington Post - Jan 25, 2012
And with authors like Umberto Eco, Ariel Dorfman, Michael Palin, Elizabeth Gilbert, Noam Chomsky, Philip Pullman, Bill Bryson, Monica Ali and Jhumpa Lahiri slated to attend, I'll be bringing an empty suitcase next year.

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At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson (2010, ARC)

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2003, Hardcover)

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail Bill Bryson

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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

by: Bill Bryson
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings.

For a start there's the gloriously out-of-shape Stephen Katz, a buddy from Iowa along for the walk.
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In a Sunburned Country

by: Bill Bryson
Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. 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, driest weather, and the most peculiar and lethal wildlife to be found on the planet.
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The Mother Tongue - English And How It Got That Way

by: Bill Bryson
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson--the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent--brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries.
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir

by: Bill Bryson
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 1950s

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 best and funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24-carat memoir gold.
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