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Bill Bryson
Born
in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, The United States
December 08, 1951
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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1998
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7 editions
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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published
2003
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267 editions
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In a Sunburned Country
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published
2000
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114 editions
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Notes from a Small Island
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published
1995
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124 editions
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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published
2010
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135 editions
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants
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published
2019
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101 editions
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Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
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published
1991
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95 editions
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
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published
1998
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107 editions
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
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2006
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90 editions
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
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published
1989
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88 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.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“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.”
― Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
― Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
“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?”
― The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
― The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
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