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An edition of Notes from a Big Country (1998)

Notes from a Big Country

New Ed edition

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  • 5 Have read

The phenomenal bestseller from the author of Notes From a Small Island.From perfectly formed potatoes to adulterous US presidents, and from domestic upsets to millennial fever, Bill Bryson just cannot resist airing his opinions and standing up for his (mostly) law-abiding fellow American citizens. But of course after twenty years in England, he is now back on the other side of the pond, and is obviously having a little trouble finding his true American self again.After vigorous exercise on the Appalachian Trail comes this edited collection of Bryson's most splenetic comic pieces culled from his humorous regular column in the Mail on Sunday.

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Black Swan
Language
English
Pages
448

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Subjects

Reisebericht, Travel, Nonfiction, Social life and customs, Humor, Moeurs et coutumes, Civilization, Vardagsliv och traditioner, Manners and customs, Civilisation, United states, social life and customs, United states, history, Anecdotes, Description and travel, Mœurs et coutumes

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2009-04, Goldmann
in German
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Streiflichter aus Amerika: Die USA für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene
2002, Goldmann
Paperback in German - 5. Auflage
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Notes from a Big Country
2000, Doubleday Canada
in English
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Notes from a Big Country
1999, BCA
in English
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Notes from a Big Country
September 16, 1999, Black Swan
Paperback in English - New Ed edition

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Page 10
Introduction
Page 11
Coming Home
Page 15
Help!
Page 19
Well, Doctor, I Was Just Trying to Lie Down
Page 23
Take Me Out to the Ball Park
Page 27
Dumb and Dumber
Page 32
Drug Culture
Page 37
Mail Call
Page 41
How to Have Fun at Home
Page 46
Design Flaws
Page 50
Wide-Open Spaces
Page 54
Rule Number 1: Follow All Rules
Page 59
The Mysteries of Christmas
Page 64
The Numbers Game
Page 69
Room Service
Page 74
Our Friend the Moose
Page 79
Consuming Pleasures
Page 84
Junk Food Heaven
Page 89
Tales of the North Woods
Page 94
Hail to the Chief
Page 99
Life in a Cold Climate
Page 104
Drowning in Red Tape
Page 109
The Wasteland
Page 114
Commercials, Commercials, Commercials
Page 119
Friendly People
Page 124
On the Hotline
Page 129
Those Boring Foreigners
Page 134
The Cupholder Revolution
Page 139
Your Tax Form Explained
Page 144
Warning: Anyone Having Fun Will Be Reported
Page 149
The States Explained
Page 154
The War on Drugs
Page 159
Why No One Walks
Page 164
Gardening with My Wife
Page 169
Why Everyone Is Worried
Page 174
A Failure to Communicate
Page 179
Lost at the Movies
Page 184
The Risk Factor
Page 189
Ah, Summer!
Page 194
Help for the Nondesignated Individual
Page 199
Where Scotland Is, and Other Useful Tips
Page 204
Dying Accents
Page 209
Inefficiency Report
Page 214
A Day at the Seaside
Page 219
Splendid Irrelevancies
Page 224
On Losing a Son
Page 229
Highway Diversions
Page 234
Snoopers at Work
Page 239
How to Hire a Car
Page 244
Fall in New England
Page 249
A Slight Inconvenience
Page 254
So Sue Me
Page 259
The Great Indoors
Page 264
A Visit to the Barbershop
Page 269
Book Tours
Page 274
Death Watch
Page 279
The Best American Holiday
Page 284
Deck the Halls
Page 289
The Waste Generation
Page 294
Shopping Madness
Page 299
Of Missing Planes and Missing Fingers
Page 304
Your New Computer
Page 309
In Praise of Diners
Page 315
Uniformly Awful
Page 320
The Fat of the Land
Page 325
The Sporting Life
Page 330
Last Night on the Titanic
Page 335
Fun in the Snow
Page 340
The Flying Nightmare
Page 345
Lost in Cyber Land
Page 350
Hotel California
Page 355
Enough Already
Page 360
Stupidity News
Page 365
Spinning the Truth
Page 370
For Your Convenience
Page 375
Old News
Page 380
Sense of Humour Failure
Page 385
The Accidental Tourist
Page 390
What Makes an Englishman
Page 395

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
448
Dimensions
7.8 x 5 x 1.1 inches
Weight
9.8 ounces

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL7816248M
Internet Archive
notesfrombigcoun0000brys
ISBN 10
0552997862
ISBN 13
9780552997867
LibraryThing
5810
Goodreads
526391

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OL4620966W

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