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Titre: The Lost Continent Condition: Neuf EAN: 9781784161804 ISBN: 9781784161804 Publisher: Black Swan Format: Poche Date de publication: 2015-11-05 Item Height: 198 Item Length: 127.00 Item Width: 23.00 Poids: 262g Auteur: Bill Bryson Sujet: Anglais Sous titres: Travels in Small-Town America ISBN-10: 1784161802 Description: ‘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. 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.
Bryson’s acclaimed first success, The Lost Continent is a classic of travel literature – hilariously, stomach-achingly, funny, yet tinged with heartache – and the book that first staked Bill Bryson’s claim as the most beloved writer of his generation. Pays/Région de fabrication: GB Série: Bryson Genre: Travel & Transport Année de publication: 2015 Information manquante?
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