Bill Bryson
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
$17.99 Add to cart“Vastly informative and vastly entertaining…A scholarly and fascinating book.” —Los Angeles Times
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricit
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 23, 2001
- ISBN10: 0380715430
- Language: English
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One Summer: America, 1927
$22.00 Add to cartA Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book
The summer of 1927 began with Charles Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Babe Ruth was closing in on the home run record. In Newa
A GoodReads Reader’s Choice- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0767919416
- Language: English
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Notes from a Small Island
$18.99 Add to cartFeaturing an all-new cover, New York Times bestseller Bill Bryson’s irrevent and hilarious journey through the beloved island nation he called home for two decades. From Downing Street to Loch Ness, t
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0380727501
- Language: English
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
$20.00 Add to cartIn these pages, the beloved Bill Bryson gives us a fascinating history of the modern home, taking us on a room-by-room tour through his own house and using each room to explore the vast history of the
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0767919394
- Language: English
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everyth… [more below]
- Series: Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 04 1999
- ISBN10: 0767902521
- Language: English
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A Short History of Nearly Everything: 2.0
$39.00 Add to cartTHE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER – One of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey–into the most intriguing and … [more below]
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: December 16 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217287925
- Language: English
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
$17.99 Add to cartBill Bryson’s bestselling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship–updated with a new i
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0062564625
- Language: English
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Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
$19.99 Read more“A literate exploration of why we use–or mangle–our native tongue.”–USA Today
Bill Bryson celebrates America’s magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western ha
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 23 2001
- ISBN10: 0380713810
- Language: English
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Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
$19.99 Add to cart“A literate exploration of why we use–or mangle–our native tongue.”–USA Today
Bill Bryson celebrates America’s magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western ha
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 23 2001
- ISBN10: 0380713810
- Language: English
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Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer’s Guide to Getting It Right
$20.00 Add to cartOne of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free grammar.
As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, f- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0767910435
- Language: English
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I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
$19.00 Add to cartA classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English- Series: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2000
- ISBN10: 076790382X
- Language: English
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Neither Here Nor There:: Travels in Europe
$19.99 Add to cartIn the early seventies, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe–in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. He was accompanied by an unforgettable sidekick named Stephen Katz (who will be gloriously fa
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0380713802
- Language: English
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The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
$19.00 Add to cartIn 1995, Iowa native Bill Bryson took a motoring trip around Britain to explore that green and pleasant land. The uproarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, is one of the most acute por… [more below]
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0804172714
- Language: English
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartFrom one of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.
Bill… [more below]- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 25 2007
- ISBN10: 0767919378
- Language: English
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A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
$21.99 Add to cartExplore the mysteries of the universe without ever leaving your home Bill Bryson takes on the world of science and answers questions big and small, perfect for curious readers looking to learn outsid… [more below]
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0385738102
- Language: English
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In a Sunburned Country
$20.00 Add to cartEvery time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. This time in Australia.
His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime nation- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0767903862
- Language: English
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
$9.99 Add to cartThe Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America-majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hi
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 26, 2006
- ISBN10: 0307279464
- Language: English
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A must-read owner’s manual for every body. Take a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body in this “delightful, anecdote-propelled read” (The Boston Globe) fro… [more below]
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0804172722
- Language: English
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
$37.00 Add to cartOne of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey–into the most intriguing and intractable questions that sc… [more below]
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 06 2003
- ISBN10: 0767908171
- Language: English
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
$18.99 Add to cart“The kind of book Steinbeck might have written if he’d traveled with David Letterman.” —New York magazine
An inspiring and hilarious account of one man’s rediscovery of America and his search for the
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0060920084
- Language: English
