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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes and to a writer with the comic ...Show more
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Series: Bryson Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. What does history really consists of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable. And where did all these normal activities take place? At home. This was the thought that inspired Bill Bryson to start a journe ...Show more
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
With his signature wit, charm, and seemingly limitless knowledge, Bill Bryson takes us on a room-by-room tour through his own house, using each room as a jumping off point into the vast history of the domestic artifacts we take for granted. As he takes us through the history of our modern comforts, Brys ...Show more
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Series: Bryson Ser.
In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A Short History of Nearly Everythingone of the most lauded books of the last decade, and delivers one of the most entertaining and illuminating books ever written about ...Show more
At Home - A Short History of Private Life Illustrated Edition by Bill Bryson
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
What does history really consist of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable. And where did all these normal activities take place? At home. This was the thought that inspired Bill Bryson to start a journey around the r ...Show more
At Home: Special Illustrated Edition: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
$79.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
From one of our most beloved authors, a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home--now richly illustrated with more than three hundred images. National bestseller At Home is Bill Bryson's epic chronicle of domestic history. In this handsome new edition, his riveting room-by-r ...Show more
Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors by Bill Bryson
$29.99 AUD
Category: English Language | Reading Level: very good
What is the difference between cant and jargon, or assume and presume? What is a fandango? How do you spell supersede? Is it hippy or hippie? These questions really matter to Bill Bryson, as they do to anyone who cares about the English language. Originally published as The Penguin Dictionary for Writer ...Show more
Down Under by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Forget Crocodile Dundee, Castlemaine XXXX and the 2000 Sydney Olympics - Bill Bryson is the man to put Australia on the map. Bill Bryson has traversed the length and breadth of Australia to bring us his first major new book since the bestselling A Walk in the Woods. Bryson is a household name, synonymou ...Show more
Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir | Series: \
"It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life u a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else. Ignoring suc ...Show more
In A Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller "A Walk in the Woods." "In A Sunburned Country" is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Aus ...Show more
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel
From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Moines, Iowa--in the middle of the largest g ...Show more
Made in America by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Bryson Ser.
Bill Bryson turns away from the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture. In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land - explaining how a d ...Show more