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The Lost Continent
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  • Published: 1 December 2004
  • ISBN: 9781405697569
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 2 hr 19 min
  • Narrator: Kerry Shales
  • RRP: $11.99
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The Lost Continent

Travels in Small-Town America

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1 Feb 2016
EBook
1 May 2010
Audiobook
1 Dec 2004
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Hardly anyone ever leaves Des Moines, Iowa. But Bill Bryson did, and after 10 years in England he decided to go home...to a foreign country.

In an ageing Chevrolet Chevette, he drove nearly 14,000 miles through 38 states to compile this hilarious and perceptive state-of-the-nation report on small-town America.

From the Deep South to the Wild West, from Elvis' birthplace through to Custer's Last Stand, Bryson
visits places he re-named Dullard, Coma, and Doldrum (so the residents don't sue or come after him with baseball bats). But his hopes of finding the American dream end in a nightmare of greed, ignorance, and pollution. This is a wickedly witty and savagely funny assessment of a country lost to itself, and to him.

Travel through small-town America with Kerry Shale's popular BBC Radio 4 reading of Bill Bryson's comic travelogue.
  • Published: 1 December 2004
  • ISBN: 9781405697569
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 2 hr 19 min
  • Narrator: Kerry Shales
  • RRP: $11.99
Categories:

About the author

Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson’s bestselling books include The Road to Little Dribbling, Notes from a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods, One Summer, I’m a Stranger Here Myself, In a Sunburned Country, Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words, and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. His acclaimed work of popular science A Short History of Nearly Everything won the Aventis Prize and the Descartes Prize and is the bestselling nonfiction book of the twenty-first century. Bill Bryson was a chancellor of Durham University, is an honorary fellow of the Royal Society, and lives in England.
portrait photo of Bill Bryson

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Great fun . . . Golden Age chic!

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