This title is Bill Bryson's quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. 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.

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.

Bill Bryson goes to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, a charity which works with local communities to eradicate poverty around the world. Travelling around the country, Bryson casts his eye on a continent new to him, and writes a diary with wry observation and curious insight.

Thousands of barns are scattered among the villages, meadows and pastures of the Yorkshire Dales and make the landscape like no other. Stone structures of great character, they form a monument to immense labour in past centuries. This book takes a look at the barns of the Dales in depth.

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This work combines two of Bill Bryson's best-loved books and demonstrates his take on life - from either side of the pond. Written in the form of bite-sized essays, both books are gently humorous as they highlight the idiosyncracies of the USA and Great Britain.

Aims to make the world of science both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe. This illustrated edition brings to life almost everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, with full-colour photographs, drawings, portraits, and cartoons.

Featuring a conversation over coffee with Sir Isaac Newton, this title takes us on a mind-expanding tour of the principles of modern science in the illuminating company of the man who defined them... and you can even ask questions.

This BBC Radio 4 series is written and presented by Bill Bryson and based on his best-selling book Mother Tongue . In it he romps through the history of Britain to reveal how English became such an infuriatingly complex - but ultimately world-beating - language.

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. In his funny memoir, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was.

Bill Bryson drove 14,000 miles in search of the mythical small town of his youth. Instead he found a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger joints; a continent lost to itself through greed, pollution and television, and lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country. A funny and serious view of smalltown America.

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Combined in one volume are Bryson's Down Under , an account of his memorable walk across Australia, and A Walk in the Woods , that tells of his lengthy stroll in the Appalachian mountains of America, with his old friend Stephen Katz.

Hardly anyone ever leaves Des Moines, Iowa. But Bill Bryson did, and after ten years in England he decided to go home - to a foreign country. In an ageing Chevrolet, he drove nearly 14,000 miles through 38 states to compile this hilarious state-of-the-nation report on small-town America.

Born in 1951 in the middle of the United States - Des Moines, Iowa - Bill Bryson is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for twenty-four carat memoir gold. This is Bill Bryson's memoir of growing up in middle America in the Fifties.

A selection of spellings and usages, covering capitalization, plurals, abbreviations and foreign names and phrases. This book also helps the readers with the difference between British and American usages, and includes information such as the names of all the Oxford colleges, or the new name for the Department of Trade and Industry.

After tales from the USA and Britain, Bill Bryson turns his roving eye to Australia, the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. He tries to find out why Aussies are so cool, digging up a past that reveals convicts, explorers, gold diggers and outlaws.