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Bill Bryson
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born
December 08, 1951
in Des Moines, Iowa, The United States
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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1997
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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2003
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In a Sunburned Country
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2000
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Notes from a Small Island
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1995
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
3.84 avg rating — 17,662 ratings
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1998
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
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2006
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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2010
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
3.73 avg rating — 12,725 ratings
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1989
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Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
3.84 avg rating — 12,087 ratings
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1991
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
3.97 avg rating — 9,653 ratings
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1990
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“As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?”
― Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
― Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
“But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”
― Bill Bryson, Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
― Bill Bryson, Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
“I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.”
― Bill Bryson, Lost Continent: Travels In Small-Town America
― Bill Bryson, Lost Continent: Travels In Small-Town America
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