Monday, October 03, 2005

October Book

In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. A backpacking expedition in 1973 brought him to England where he met his wife and decided to settle. He wrote for the English newspapers The Times and The Independent for many years, writing travel articles to supplement his income. He lived with his family in North Yorkshire before moving back to the States in 1995, to Hanover, New Hampshire, with his wife and four children. In 2003 he and his family moved back to England, where they currently reside.

From: Official Bill Bryson Website: http://www.randomhouse.com/features/billbryson/

Reviews:
Random House http://www.randomhouse.com/features/billbryson/bookshelf5.html
Yale Review http://www.yale.edu/yrb/summer01/review11.htm
Amazon reviews: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0767903862/ref=dp_proddesc_0/104-1191621-3053544?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=283155Book Browse.com http://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm?book_number=553
aaabookserch: http://www.aaabooksearch.com/Reviews/0767903862

Bill Bryson Books at DC Public Library

  • A short history of nearly everything (2003) 500 B9166
  • Bryson's dictionary of troublesome words (2002) 423.1 B916
  • Bill Bryson's African diary (2002) 916.762 B916
  • In a sunburned country (2000) 919.4046 B916
  • I'm a stranger here myself: notes on returning to America after twenty years away (1999)973.92 B916
  • A walk in the woods: rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (1998) 917.4044 B916
  • Notes from a small island (1996) 914.1048 B916
  • Made in America: an informal history of the English language in the United States (1994)420.973 B916
  • Neither here nor there: travels in Europe (1992) 914.0455 B916N
  • The mother tongue: English and how it got that way (1990) 420.9 B916
  • The lost continent: travels in small-town America (1989) 917.3049 B916

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