| The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way by Bill Bryson “Vastly informative and vastly entertaining…A scholarly and fascinating book.” —Los Angeles TimesWith dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog... Today's Bargain Price: $14.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Humor | | |
| A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail) by Bill Bryson NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body “The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Humor; All Sports & Outdoors | | |
| The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A must-read owner’s manual for every body. Take a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body in this “delightful, anecdote-propelled read” (The Boston Globe) from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything. With a new Afterword. “You will marvel at the brilliance and vast weirdness of your... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Humor | | |
| One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy BookA GoodReads Reader's ChoiceIn One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life.The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth century: on May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh... Today's Bargain Price: $13.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Politics, History and Current Events | | |
| At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson In these pages, the beloved Bill Bryson gives us a fascinating history of the modern home, taking us on a room-by-room tour through his own house and using each room to explore the vast history of the domestic artifacts we take for granted. As he takes us through the history of our modern comforts, Bryson demonstrates that whatever... Today's Bargain Price: $14.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs | | |
| A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition by Bill Bryson This new edition of the acclaimed bestseller is lavishly illustrated to convey, in pictures as in words, Bill Bryson’s exciting, informative journey into the world of science.In A Short History of Nearly Everything, the bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, confronts his greatest challenge yet: to understand—and, if... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
| I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away by Bill Bryson A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens—as he later put it... Today's Bargain Price: $14.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs; All Humor | | |
| The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson From one of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century—1951—in the middle of the United States—Des Moines, Iowa—in the middle of the... Today's Bargain Price: $13.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs; All Humor | | |
| The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America by Bill Bryson “The kind of book Steinbeck might have written if he’d traveled with David Letterman.” —New York magazineAn inspiring and hilarious account of one man’s rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town. Following an urge to rediscover his youth, Bill Bryson left his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that would take... Today's Bargain Price: $13.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Humor | | |
| Neither here nor there: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson In the early seventies, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe—in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. He was accompanied by an unforgettable sidekick named Stephen Katz (who will be gloriously familiar to readers of Bryson's A Walk in the Woods). Twenty years later, he decided to retrace his journey. The result is the affectionate... Today's Bargain Price: $14.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Humor | | |
| Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson Before New York Times bestselling author Bill Bryson wrote The Road to Little Dribbling, he took this delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation of Great Britain, which has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie’s Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey. Today's Bargain Price: $13.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Humor | | |
| Bill Bryson's African Diary by Bill Bryson From the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body comes a travel diary documenting a visit to Kenya. All royalties and profits go to CARE International. In the early fall of 2002, famed travel writer Bill Bryson journeyed to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local... Today's Bargain Price: $7.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs | | |
| Icons of England by Bill Bryson This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub signs to seaside piers, from cattle... Today's Bargain Price: $10.49 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Nonfiction; All Politics, History and Current Events; All Sports & Outdoors | | |
| made in america: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States by Bill Bryson “A literate exploration of why we use—or mangle—our native tongue.”—USA TodayBill Bryson celebrates America’s magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood…and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle call his befeathered cap “Macaroni.” Today's Bargain Price: $14.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Humor | | |
| Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors by Bill Bryson From one of America's most beloved and bestselling authors, a wonderfully useful and readable guide to the problems of the English language most commonly encountered by editors and writers.What is the difference between “immanent” and “imminent”? What is the singular form of graffiti? What is the difference between “acute” and “chronic”?... Today's Bargain Price: $5.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Writing and Publishing | | |
| Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right by Bill Bryson One of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free grammar. As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where ‘cleave’ can mean to... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Writing and Publishing | | |
| At Home: Special Illustrated Edition: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson From one of the most beloved authors of our time—more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone—a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home. “Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part... Today's Bargain Price: $21.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Politics, History and Current Events | | |
| The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain by Bill Bryson A loving and hilarious—if occasionally spiky—valentine to Bill Bryson’s adopted country, Great Britain. Prepare for total joy and multiple episodes of unseemly laughter.Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, a true... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
| The Best American Travel Writing 2016 (The Best American Series) by Bill Bryson This collection gathers the best travel essays from The New Yorker, Harpers, GQ and more—featuring Paul Theroux, Alice Gregory, Dave Eggers and others.Why do I travel? Why does anyone of us travel? Bill Bryson poses these questions in his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2016, and though he admits, “I wasn’t at all sure I... Today's Bargain Price: $9.49 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Writing and Publishing | | |
| Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives Series) by Bill Bryson Bill Bryson’s bestselling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship—updated with a new introduction by the author to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s deathWilliam Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the... Today's Bargain Price: $14.49 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs | | |
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Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa. For twenty years he lived in England, where he worked for the Times and the Independent, and wrote for most major British and American publications. His books include travel memoirs (Neither Here Nor There; The Lost Continent; Notes from a Small Island) and books on language (The Mother Tongue; Made in America). His account of his attempts to walk the Appalachian Trail, A Walk in the Woods, was a huge New York Times bestseller. He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his wife and his four children.
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