The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Bryson, Bill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0436071835 ISBN 13: 9780436071836

Verlag: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1989

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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Slightest hint of tanning to page margins. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. FLATSIGNED by the author.; 262 pages; Physical desc. : 262p. ; map (lining-papers) ; 25cm. Subject: Bryson, Bill - Travel - United States. Cities and towns - United States. Travel - Handbooks, manuals, etc. United States - Description and travel - 1981- . United States - Social life and customs - 1971- . Summary: Bill Bryson drove 14,000 miles in search of the mythical small town of his youth. Instead he found a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger joints; a continent lost to itself through greed, pollution and television, and lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country. A funny and serious view of smalltown America.

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Bill Bryson drove 14,000 miles in search of the mythical small town of his youth. Instead he found a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger joints; a continent lost to itself through greed, pollution and television, and lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country. A funny and serious view of smalltown America.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

Reseña del editor:

Bill Bryson drove 14,000 miles in search of the mythical small town of his youth. Instead he found a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger joints; a continent lost to itself through greed, pollution and television, and lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country. A funny and serious view of smalltown America.

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• Verlag: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0436071835
• ISBN 13: 9780436071836
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256