The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America [Hardcover]
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America (1989)
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ISBN: 9780060161583 bzw. 0060161582, in Englisch, Harpercollins, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, owlsmart_usa.
A travelogue by Bill Bryson is as close to a sure thing as funny books get. The Lost Continent is no exception. Following an urge to rediscover his youth (he should know better), the author leaves his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that takes him across 38 states. Lucky for us, he brought a notebook. With a razor wit and a kind heart, Bryson serves up a colourful tale of boredom, kitsch, and beauty when you least expect it. Gentler elements aside, The Lost Continent is an amusing book. Here's Bryson on the women of his native state: "I will say this, however--and it's a strange, strange thing--the teenaged daughters of these fat women are always utterly delectable ... I don't know what it is that happens to them, but it must be awful to marry one of those nubile cuties knowing that there is a time bomb ticking away in her that will at some unknown date make her bloat out into something huge and grotesque, presumably all of a sudden and without much notice, like a self- inflating raft from which the pin has been yanked." Yes, Bill, but be honest: what do you really think? Hardcover, Ausgabe: Stated First Edition, Label: Harpercollins, Harpercollins, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1989-08, Freigegeben: 1989-08-01, Studio: Harpercollins, Verkaufsrang: 5620315.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, owlsmart_usa.
A travelogue by Bill Bryson is as close to a sure thing as funny books get. The Lost Continent is no exception. Following an urge to rediscover his youth (he should know better), the author leaves his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that takes him across 38 states. Lucky for us, he brought a notebook. With a razor wit and a kind heart, Bryson serves up a colourful tale of boredom, kitsch, and beauty when you least expect it. Gentler elements aside, The Lost Continent is an amusing book. Here's Bryson on the women of his native state: "I will say this, however--and it's a strange, strange thing--the teenaged daughters of these fat women are always utterly delectable ... I don't know what it is that happens to them, but it must be awful to marry one of those nubile cuties knowing that there is a time bomb ticking away in her that will at some unknown date make her bloat out into something huge and grotesque, presumably all of a sudden and without much notice, like a self- inflating raft from which the pin has been yanked." Yes, Bill, but be honest: what do you really think? Hardcover, Ausgabe: Stated First Edition, Label: Harpercollins, Harpercollins, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1989-08, Freigegeben: 1989-08-01, Studio: Harpercollins, Verkaufsrang: 5620315.
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LOST CONTINENT (1989)
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ISBN: 9780060161583 bzw. 0060161582, in Englisch, Harper & Row, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht, mit Einband.
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Warren Berry.
New York: Harper & Row, 1989. First edition of very popular author's first book. Blurb starts: "I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." Hardcover in cream boards with gilt cow on front, mauve cloth spine. Map endpapers. 314 pages with index. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Warren Berry.
New York: Harper & Row, 1989. First edition of very popular author's first book. Blurb starts: "I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." Hardcover in cream boards with gilt cow on front, mauve cloth spine. Map endpapers. 314 pages with index. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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ISBN: 9780060161583 bzw. 0060161582, in Englisch, New York : Harper & Row.
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, MW Books Ltd.
New York : Harper & Row, 1989. 2nd Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Description: 314 p. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Bryson, Bill --Travel. Cities and towns --United States --Description and travel--Social life and customs --1971-.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, MW Books Ltd.
New York : Harper & Row, 1989. 2nd Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Description: 314 p. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Bryson, Bill --Travel. Cities and towns --United States --Description and travel--Social life and customs --1971-.
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
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ISBN: 9780060161583 bzw. 0060161582, in Englisch, HarperCollins Publishers, gebundenes Buch, neu.
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Lost-Continent~~Bill-Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America.
Lost-Continent~~Bill-Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America.
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The Lost Continent : Travels in Small-Town America / Bill Bryson (ExLib)
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