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1	Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail more books like this by Bill Bryson Bill Bryson, known in England as "the funniest travel writer alive," returns to the States and walks the Appalachian Trail, starting in Hanover, New Hampshire. see all copies from £2.74! new only from £6.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	A Short History of Nearly Everything more books like this by Bill Bryson (Read by) One of the world's most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to ... see all copies from £1.85! new only from £8.02! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir more books like this by Bill Bryson From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language comes a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £2.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	In a Sunburned Country more books like this by Bill Bryson Compared to his Australian excursions, Bill Bryson had it easy on the Appalachian Trail. Nonetheless, Bryson has on several occasions embarked on seemingly endless flights bound for a land where Little Debbies are scarce but insects are abundant (up to 220,000 species of them), not to mention the crocodiles. Taking readers on a rollicking ride far ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £7.76! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America more books like this by Bill Bryson "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 town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the films of his youth ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £7.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe more books like this by Bill Bryson (Read by) In "Neither Here nor There" Bill Bryson brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia. Fluent in, oh, at least one language, he retraces his travels as a student 20 years before ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £7.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	The Mother Tongue more books like this by Bill Bryson The author of the acclaimed The Lost Continent now steers us through the quirks and byways of the English language. We learn why island, freight, and colonel are spelled in such unphonetic ways, why four has a u in it but forty doesn't, plus bizarre and enlightening facts about some of the patriarchs of this peculiar language. see all copies from £5.48! new only from £9.18! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away more books like this by Bill Bryson Bill Bryson lived in Britain for 20 years, then returned with his family to the U.S. Here he writes about the process of re-entry--the shocks, the adjustments, the excesses, and (especially) the funny bits. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £7.05! \| first editions
9	Shakespeare: The World as Stage more books like this by Bill Bryson William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £5.65! \| first editions
10	Notes from a Small Island more books like this by Bill Bryson After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such bestsellers as "The Mother Tongue" and "Made in America", decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson's homeland - and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £7.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Made in America more books like this by Bill Bryson Travel writer Bill Bryson looks at the language of America and explains the history behind it, including the origins of phrases such as "The real McCoy" and the "G-string"; why two humble bicycle repairmen from Ohio succeeded in mastering manned flight when the world's greatest engineers couldn't get a model aircraft off the ground; why the ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £5.03! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Neither Here Nor There more books like this by Bill Bryson Bill Bryson shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet and heads for Europe. He retraces his travels as a student twenty years earlier with caustic hilarity and his own unique brand of humour. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson lived in North Yorkshire for many years. First published in 1991 by Secker & Warburg. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £16.39! \| first editions
13 view cover	A Walk in the Woods more books like this by Bill Bryson From the author of "Notes from a Small Island" and "The Lost Continent" comes this humorous report on his walk along the Appalachian Trail. The Trail covers 14 states and over 2000 miles, and stretches along the east coast of America from Maine in the north to Georgia in the south. It is famous for being the longest continuous footpath in the ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £7.33! \| first editions
14 view cover	Mother tongue : the English language more books like this by Bill Bryson How did English, 'treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants' become the undisputed global language? How did words like shampoo, sofa and rowdy (and others drawn from over fifty languages) find their way into our dictionary? In this revealing and often hilarious book, Bill Bryson examines the mother tongue and ... see all copies from £4.12! new only from £7.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Bill Bryson's African Diary more books like this by Bill Bryson Invited by CARE International, the author of "In a Sunburned Country" now visits Kenya and observes the many contrasts of Kenyan life, from the country's dramatic geography and famous game reserves to its postcolonial poverty and environmental problems. The author's earnings from this diary, as well as a portion of the profits, go to CARE. of ... see all copies from £4.95! new only from £6.51! \| first editions
16 view cover	Down Under more books like this by Bill Bryson After tales from the USA and Britain, Bill Bryson turns his roving eye to Australia, the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents. It has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £7.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away more books like this by Bill Bryson After living abroad for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States, with his English wife and four children. They were greeted by a new-and-improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, 24-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item. Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £10.56! \| signed copies \| first editions
18	The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way more books like this by Bill Bryson In this informative yet curiously funny book Bill Bryson, of travel-writing fame, tackles the quirks and growing pains of the English language. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £11.27!
19 view cover	Troublesome words more books like this by Bill Bryson This dictionary provides a straightforward guide to the pitfalls and hotly disputed issues in written English. The entries are discussed with wit and common sense, and illustrated with examples of questionable usage taken from leading British and American newspapers, plus occasional references to masters of the language such as Samuel Johnson and ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £7.33!
20 view cover	Last Continent & Neither Here Nor There more books like this by Bill Bryson 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 finds a continent that is doubly lost: lost to itself because it is blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £10.60! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors more books like this by Bill Bryson Covering spelling, capitalization, plurals, hyphens, abbreviations, and foreign names and phrases, this reference is an essential guide to the wonderfully disordered world of the English language. see all copies from £9.89! new only from £13.56!
22	Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States more books like this by Bill Bryson On the coattails of THE MOTHER TONGUE, this book explores specifically American issues with the English language. It is in effect a history of the United States from a linguist's perspective. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £11.12! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition more books like this by Bill Bryson One of the world's most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer about the universe and civilization. see all copies from £133.36! new only from £133.44!
24 view cover	Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words more books like this by Bill Bryson Revised, updated, and thoroughly (but not overly) Americanized, this is an essential guide to the wonderfully disordered thing that is the English language. With 1,000 entries, a helpful glossary and guide to pronunciation. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £9.74! \| first editions
25 view cover	The Best American Travel Writing more books like this by Bill Bryson (Editor), Jason Wilson (Foreword by) Edited by the inimitable Bill Bryson, this inaugural anthology of travel writing--25 multifaceted essays by writers such as P.J. O'Rourke, Dave Eggers, Mark Ross, and Patrick Symmes--represents some of America's finest wandering eyes. A New York Times Best Book in Travel for 2000. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £6.34! \| first editions

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