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Neither Here, Nor There
av Bill Bryson
Brought to you by Penguin.Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither here Nor there he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hamemrfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to istanbul on the cusp of Asia. Fluent in, oh, at least one language, he retraces his travels as a student twenty years before.Whether braving the homicidal motorists of Paris, being robbed by gypsies in Florence, attempting not to order tripe and eyeballs in a German restaurant, window-shopping in the sex shops of the Reeperbahn or disputing his hotel bill in Copenhagen, Bryson takes in the sights, dissects the culture and illuminates each place and person with his hilariously caustic observations. He even goes to Liechtenstein.(c) Bill Bryson 1991 (P) Penguin Audio 2010

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At Home
av Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of: centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - eating, sleeping and merely endeavouring to get more comfortable. And that most of the key discoveries for humankind can be found in the very fabric of the houses in which we live.This inspired him to start a journey around his own house, an old rectory in Norfolk, wandering from room to room considering how the ordinary things in life came to be. Along the way he did a prodigious amount of research on the history of anything and everything, from architecture to electricity, from food preservation to epidemics, from the spice trade to the Eiffel Tower, from crinolines to toilets; and on the brilliant, creative and often eccentric minds behind them. And he discovered that, although there may seem to be nothing as unremarkable as our domestic lives, there is a huge amount of history, interest and excitement - and even a little danger - lurking in the corners of every home.Where A Short History of Nearly Everything was a sweeping panorama of the world, the universe and everything, At Home peers at private life through a microscope. Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A Short History of Nearly Everything one of the most lauded books of the last decade, and delivers one of the most entertaining and illuminating books ever written about the history of the way we live.

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Short History of Nearly Everything
av Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. His challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth, or what a black hole is, or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out?On his travels through time and space, Bill Bryson takes us with him on the ultimate eye-opening journey, and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.

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Walk In The Woods
av Bill Bryson
The Appalachian Trail covers 14 states, and over 2,000 miles. It stretches along the East Coast of the United States, from Maine in the north to Georgia in the south. It is famous for being the longest continuous footpath in the world. (Compare this with the Pennine Way, which is a mere 250 miles long.) It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas - Redneck country - Moonshine, Lil' Abner, there's bears in them thar hills. Remember the film Deliverance?God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake this gruelling hike. Perhaps it was just a long-held ambition to lose weight: he has lost two stone so far. As he recently wrote from the trail to his publisher:'Speaking of vigorous exercise, boy have I just had some. Maine was a bitch. I want you to come back and walk it with me so that when you die if you go to hell you will be able to say: "Call this hell? Try walking across Maine in August."'Reared in the tradition of Mark Twain, James Thurber and S.J. Perelman, Bryson used his many years in Britain to soak up a peculiarly English sense of irony and humour and to hone a laugh-out-loud style that is uniquely, hilariously, his own.

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Notes From A Small Island
av Bill Bryson
Brought to you by Penguin.In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of the nation's public face and private parts (as it were), and to analyse what precisely it was he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite; a military hero whose dying wish was to be kissed by a fellow named Hardy; place names like Farleigh Wallop, Titsey and Shellow Bowells; people who said 'Mustn't grumble', and 'Ooh lovely' at the sight of a cup of tea and a plate of biscuits; and Gardeners' Question Time. Notes from a Small Island was a huge number-one bestseller when it was first published, and has become the nation's most loved book about Britain, going on to sell over two million copies.(c) Bill Bryson 1995 (P) Penguin Audio 2010

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Keho : opas asukkaalle
av Bill Bryson
Mistä meidät ihmiset on oikeasti tehty?

Menestyskirjailija Bill Brysonin huikea tutkimusmatka ihmiskehon syövereihin.

Suureen suosioon yltäneessä teoksessaan Lyhyt historia lähes kaikesta Bill Bryson kuvasi tieteen saavutuksia tavalla, jota aivan jokaisen oli helppo ymmärtää. Nyt Bryson kohdistaa katseensa ihmiskehoon. Mistä me koostumme, mikä saa jalkamme nousemaan, sydämemme pumppaamaan verta ja aivomme ymmärtämään niin iloa kuin surua? Entä millä keinoin ihmiskeho suojaa ja parantaa itseään? Uskomattomien faktojen ja hauskojen esimerkkien avulla Bryson selvittää lukijalle tätä oman elämämme suurinta mysteeriä.

Bill Brysonin tunnetuin teos on Lyhyt historia lähes kaikesta (WSOY, 2005). Luonnontieteiden saavutuksia selkeästi ja viihdyttävästi kuvaava teos oli kansainvälinen arvostelu- ja myyntimenestys. Brysonilta on suomennettu kirjat Muistiinmerkintöjä pieneltä saarelta (2000) ja Sisään - lyhyt historia lähes kaikesta kotona (2011).

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Lyhyt historia lähes kaikesta
av Bill Bryson
Eikö olisi sääli viettää ainutkertainen elämä maapallolla saamatta koskaan selville, mistä tässä kaikessa oikeastaan on kysymys? Kuinka ihmisestä tuli ihminen? Miksi kotiplaneetallamme ylipäätään on elämää? Ja miten maailmankaikkeus sai alkunsa? Kun kirjailija Bill Bryson ryhtyi selvittämään maailmankaikkeuden suuria arvoituksia, hän halusi kerrankin kuulla tieteentekijöiltä ymmärrettäviä lauseita. Kolmen vuoden ajan hän haastatteli eri tieteenalojen johtavia tutkijoita - ja pyysi heitä aina selittämään uudestaan, jos jotakin meni ensi kuulemalta yli hilseen.Uupumattoman työn tuloksena syntyi Lyhyt historia lähes kaikesta, joka on nimensä veroinen, hauska ja erinomaisen helposti lähestyttävä kirja... niin, todellakin lähes kaikesta mitä ihmiskunta on avaruudesta, kotiplaneetastaan ja omasta alkuperästään saanut selville.

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Lost Continent
av Bill Bryson
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.

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A Really Short History of Nearly Everything

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A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
av Bill Bryson, Bill Bryson
Brought to you by Puffin.

Adapted from A Short History of Nearly Everything, this stunningly illustrated book from the extraordinary Bill Bryson takes us from the Big Bang to the dawn of science, and everything in between.

Perfect for ages 8 to 80.

Ever wondered how we got from nothing to something?
Or thought about how we can weigh the earth?
Or wanted to reach the edge of the universe?

Uncover the mysteries of time, space and life on earth in this extraordinary book - a journey from the centre of the planet to the dawn of the dinosaurs, and everything in between.

And discover our own incredible journey, from single cell to civilisation, including the brilliant (and sometimes very bizarre) scientists who helped us find out the how and why.

Reviews for A Short History of Nearly Everything:

''It''s the sort of book I would have devoured as a teenager. It might well turn unsuspecting young readers into scientists.'' Evening Standard

''I doubt that a better book for the layman about the findings of modern science has been written'' Sunday Telegraph

''A thoroughly enjoyable, as well as educational, experience. Nobody who reads it will ever look at the world around them in the same way again'' Daily Express

''The very book I have been looking for most of my life'' Daily Mail

Â© Bill Bryson 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid
av Bill Bryson
Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt. It may have looked like an old college football sweater, but young Bryson knew better. It was obviously the Sacred Jersey of Zap, and proved that he had been placed with this innocuous family in the middle of America to fly, become invisible, shoot guns out of people's hands from a distance, and wear his underpants over his jeans in the manner of Superman. Bill Bryson's first travel book opened with the immortal line, 'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.' In his deeply funny new memoir, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, and the curious world of 1950s America. It was a happy time, when almost everything was good for you, including DDT, cigarettes and nuclear fallout. This is a book about growing up in a specific time and place. But in Bryson's hands, it becomes everyone's story, one that will speak volumes - especially to anyone who has ever been young.

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Road to Little Dribbling
av Bill Bryson, Richard Digance
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation's heart and became the best-selling travel book ever, and was also voted in a BBC poll the book that best represents Britain. Now, to mark the twentieth anniversary of that modern classic, Bryson makes a brand-new journey around Britain to see what has changed.Following (but not too closely) a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis to Cape Wrath, by way of places that many people never get to at all, Bryson sets out to rediscover the wondrously beautiful, magnificently eccentric, endearingly unique country that he thought he knew but doesn't altogether recognize any more. Yet, despite Britain's occasional failings and more or less eternal bewilderments, Bill Bryson is still pleased to call our rainy island home. And not just because of the cream teas, a noble history, and an extra day off at Christmas.Once again, with his matchless homing instinct for the funniest and quirkiest, his unerring eye for the idiotic, the endearing, the ridiculous and the scandalous, Bryson gives us an acute and perceptive insight into all that is best and worst about Britain today.Download includes accompanying PDF map of the Bryson LineMusic written and performed by Richard Digance, inspired by The Road to Little Dribbling

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Shakespeare
av Bill Bryson
Shakespeare: The Illustrated Edition is an exquisitely illustrated, updated edition of Bill Bryson's bestselling biography of William Shakespeare that takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship. With more than 100 color and black-and-white illustrations throughout, and updated to include recent discoveries, Shakespeare: The Illustrated Edition evokes the superstitions, academic discoveries, and myths surrounding the life of one of the greatest poets, and makes sense of the man behind the masterpieces.

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SHAKESPEARE UNABRIDGED AUD EA
av Bill Bryson
This short biography of William Shakespeare by world famous writer Bill Bryson brims with the author?s inimitable wit and intelligence.Includes an exclusive Q&A session with the author.Shakespeare?s life, despite the scrutiny of generations of biographers and scholars, is still a thicket of myths and traditions, some preposterous, some conflicting, arranged around the few scant facts known about the Bard ? from his birth in Stratford to the bequest of his second best bed to his wife when he died.Following his international bestsellers ?A Short History of Nearly Everything? and ?The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid?, Bill Bryson has written a short biography of William Shakespeare for the Eminent Lives series ? which seeks to pair great subjects with writers known for their strong sensibilities and sharp, lively points of view.

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