Lost Continent

Lost Continent

book type
0 Review(s) 
LF/322732/R
English
In stock
грн95.00
грн85.50 Save 10%

  Instant download 

after payment (24/7)

  Wide range of formats 

(for all gadgets)

  Full book 

(including for Apple and Android)

'I come 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 in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of trim and sunny place where the films of his youth were set. Instead, his search led him to Anywhere, USA; a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by lookalike people with a penchant for synthetic fibres. Travelling around thirty-eight of the lower states - united only in their mind-numbingly dreary uniformity - he discovered a continent that was doubly lost; lost to itself because blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a stranger in his own land.The Lost Continent is a classic of travel literature - hilariously, stomach-achingly funny, yet tinged with heartache - and the book that...
LF/322732/R

Data sheet

Name of the Author
Bill
Bryson
Language
English
ISBN
9780552998086
Release date
1998

Reviews

Write your review

Lost Continent

'I come 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 ...

Write your review

15 books by the same author: