Overview of The Lost Continent Book

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.

• Book Type :

Travel Writing

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

384 pages

• ISBN - 10 :

0552998087

• The Lost Continent Published On :

2 Jan 1999

• Resource:

Travel, Travel Writing Books for Students, Teachers, Graudates, Professionals and all others

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