THE LOST CONTINENT Bill Bryson - Travels in Small-Town America

The Lost Continent is another Bill Bryson travel classic, a very funny look at the USA.

This is a used book in good, read condition: has been read a few times; some creasing and wear to cover and corners; pages are clean with light corner wear; a little worn but a good cheap reading copy. See photos for cover blurb and sample page(s). The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

Publisher's blurb: "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 were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Dead Squaw, Coma, Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA; a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He found 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 foreigner in his own country.

Book Details

Code: SKU1175

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 350

Published: 1999 by Black Swan, UK

ISBN: 0552998087

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