|
| Home | Contact Us | Privacy |
Comedy > Essays & Memoirs > Essays & Memoirs, Travel and AdventureThe Lost Continent
|
|||||||||||||
| Buying Options (Click Logos Below) | ||
|
- Two free Audiobooks! | |
Hardly anyone ever leaves Des Moines, Iowa. But Bill Bryson did, and after 10 years in England he decided to go home...to a foreign country.
In an ageing Chevrolet Chevette, he drove nearly 14,000 miles through 38 states to compile this hilarious and perceptive state-of-the-nation report on small-town America.
From the Deep South to the Wild West, from Elvis' birthplace through to Custer's Last Stand, Bryson visits places he re-named Dullard, Coma, and Doldrum (so the residents don't sue or come after him with baseball bats). But his hopes of finding the American dream end in a nightmare of greed, ignorance, and pollution. This is a wickedly witty and savagely funny assessment of a country lost to itself, and to him.
Travel through small-town America with Kerry Shale's popular BBC Radio 4 reading of Bill Bryson's comic travelogue.
| Listen to a sample: | Windows Media Player | |
| Real Player |
Average Customer Review: 0 of 5
Publisher: BBC WW
ISBN: 0-563-49433-6
Audio Length: 2 hours and 19 min.
Other audio books by Bill Bryson:
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Unabridged)
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Unabridged)
A Walk in the Woods
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
In a Sunburned Country (Unabridged)
Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
Notes from a Small Island
Search Audio Book Spot
Custom Search