The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

by Bill Bryson (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1990

  $4.65

• Used

  Paperback
  1990

  $3.40

• Used

  Hardcover
  1992

  $4.19

  This volume contains humorous accounts of two journeys, one taken across America, the other a trek across Europe. The Lost Continent is an account of one man's rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town. Instead he finds a continent that is doubly lost: lost to itself because it is blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; and lost to him because he has become a foreigner in his own country. In Neither Here Nor There , the author journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on the European continent, to Istanbul. In doing so he retraces his steps as a student 20 years before, visiting countries including Norway, France and Italy.