2001年5月15日 · From Times Square to the Mississippi River to Williamsburg, Virginia, Bryson's keen and hilarious search for the perfect American small town is a journey straight into the heart and soul of America. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and …

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America is the first book by American travel writer Bill Bryson. The book recounts his 13,978-mile trip around the United States in the fall of 1987 and spring of 1988.

2012年11月16日 · In September of 1987, 36-year-old Bill Bryson got into the small red Chevette he had borrowed from his mother and headed out on a road trip to re-discover the America of his childhood.

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.

2018年3月22日 · One of his earliest books, ‘The Lost Continent’ is something of a (now) backwards look at 80s America (mostly by car) by a relatively ‘youthful’ Bryson who is, nonetheless, already a grumpy old man.

The Lost Continent tells the story of Bryson’s two trips (one in 1987, the next in the spring of 1988) from his birthplace of Des Moines, Iowa to places all around the United States – from New England to the Midwest to California and the Rocky Mountains. Bryson divided his book (and his trip) into “East” and “West,” after the parts ...

1 天前 · As a writer, Bryson is undeniably funny and clearly very smart. The Lost Continent was published in 1989 and is one of Bryson’s earliest books. It is also the first of several travel books that he has written. In all, he has published over 20 books. He is one of my favorite writers. Bryson grew up in Iowa because, as he writes, “somebody ...