The Lost Continent Travels in Small-Town America - 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 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.

ISBN:	9781784161804
Publisher:	Transworld
Imprint:	Black Swan
Published date:	05 Nov 2015
DEWEY:	917.304927
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	22989
Number of pages:	378
Weight:	268g
Height:	197mm
Width:	127mm
Spine width:	25mm

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