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Bill Bryson
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in Des Moines, Iowa, The United States
December 08, 1951
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
— published 1997 — 49 editions |
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
— published 2003 — 86 editions |
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Notes from a Small Island
— published 1995 — 39 editions |
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In a Sunburned Country
— published 2000 — 48 editions |
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
— published 1998 — 50 editions |
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
— published 2010 — 46 editions |
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
— published 2006 — 46 editions |
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
— published 1989 — 36 editions |
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Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
— published 1991 — 37 editions |
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
— published 1990 — 17 editions |
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“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
“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
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