The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
- ISBN-10
- 1784161802
- ISBN-13
- 9781784161804
- Series
- The Lost Continent
- Category
- Cities and towns
- Pages
- 378
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-11-01
- Publisher
- Random House
- Author
- Bill Bryson
Description
'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.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2022-10-18
- 212 pages
- Ebook
- Charlesbridge Publishing
Similar books
-
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
By Bill BrysonBill Bryson's unsparing and hilarious account of his travels across America in search of the perfect small town. At the end of his journey, Bryson finds not the idyllic town...
-
The Lost Continent of Mu
By James ChurchwardThis classic book on the theory of a lost continent in the Pacific imparts the fascinating travel stories and theories of James Churchward.
-
The Lost Continent
By Edgar Rice Burroughs, Anne Moore Odell, Ricardo ArreolaTurck is shocked by the unforgiving lands he finds himself in, and by the fearsome beasts that inhabit them. This is the story of Turck's adventures in the land that was all but lost to the world.
-
Atlantis: The Lost Continent Finally Found
By Arysio SantosThe late author Arysio Santos was a highly regarded climatologist, geologist, and nuclear physicist.
-
The Lost Continent
By Tui SutherlandBut there's never been any evidence, and most dragons dismissed the rumors as fairy tales. Until now. Because it turns out the stories are true. And the other tribes are coming.
-
The Lost Continent
By Charles Wright HyneThe finest tale ever written of fabled Atlantis, The Lost Continent is a sweeping, fiery saga of the last days of the doomed land.
-
The Lost Continent: Large Print
By C J Cutcliffe HyneThe Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis is a fantasy novel by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne. It is considered one of the classic fictional retellings of the story of the drowning of Atlantis, combining elements ...
-
The Lost Continent of Pan: The Oceanic Civilization at the Origin of World Culture
By Susan B. MartinezMerrell Fankhauser has written to me that he saw on Maui “Mayan-like stone work underneath an old building, and a pyramid in Haleakala crater. Photos are in my DVD documentary Return to Mu.” Pillars that Merrell found on the other side ...
-
The Lost Continent
By C. J. Hyne"The Lost Continent" by C. J. Cutliffe Hyne is the 13th entry in our "Lost World-Lost Race" series. This is a rollicking, non-stop tale about a legend that will never die.
-
Atlantis: The Lost Continent Revealed
By Charles BerlitzAtlantis: The Lost Continent Revealed