Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. Settled in England for many years, he moved to America with his wife and four children for a few years, but has since returned to live in the UK. His bestselling travel books include The Lost Continent, Notes From a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods and Down Under. His acclaimed work of popular science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the Aventis Prize and the Descartes Prize, and was the biggest selling non-fiction book of the decade in the UK.
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 Hammerfest, 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 or window-shopping in the sex shops of the Reeperbahn, Bryson takes in the sights, dissects the culture and illuminates each place and person with his hilariously caustic observations. He even goes to Liechtenstein.
I learned the fact that Bryson was popular (besides Wikipedia says so) from the library checking status list. I’m so used to that when searching for certain writer, all his works would be neatly listed with the status description of “available at xxx libr...
评分Bill Bryson的作品在旅行文学里是个异数,他的文字风趣横生甚至有些粗俗,丝毫不掩饰行程中的尴尬和低落时分。他眼里的欧洲一点儿也不完美,瑞典小镇的冬天冷清得要命;意大利博物馆票价高昂还没东西看,奥地利人民完全忘了二战的血债,瑞士小城昂贵而没意思,南斯拉夫穷得揭不...
评分喜欢比尔幽默睿智的文笔。我们所期待的旅行是一路都有行人对你微笑的欢乐回忆,但即使是在欧洲这样发达的区域,旅行者仍然时时会碰到傲慢的侍者、鲁莽的司机,以及时刻准备偷你钱包才不管你死活的职业小偷!但是在作者的笔下这些都变得妙趣横生。 我更喜欢这本书的英文名字 Ne...
评分If you have a sense of humor, I bet you'll love this book. I bought it from Chaterhouse Booktraders in Shanghai, and finished it during the New Year holidays. He started this European trip from the northern-most city of Hammerfest, and finished at Istanbul...
评分If you have a sense of humor, I bet you'll love this book. I bought it from Chaterhouse Booktraders in Shanghai, and finished it during the New Year holidays. He started this European trip from the northern-most city of Hammerfest, and finished at Istanbul...
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评分Look Ahead的aquamarine啊!!!
评分Look Ahead的aquamarine啊!!!
评分Look Ahead的aquamarine啊!!!
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