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An edition of Notes from a Big Country (1998)

Notes from a Big Country

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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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Cover of: Streiflichter aus Amerika
Streiflichter aus Amerika
2009-04, Goldmann
in German
Cover of: Streiflichter aus Amerika
Streiflichter aus Amerika: Die USA für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene
2002, Goldmann
Paperback in German - 5. Auflage
Cover of: Notes from a Big Country
Notes from a Big Country
2000, Doubleday Canada
in English
Cover of: Notes from a Big Country
Notes from a Big Country
1999, BCA
in English
Cover of: Notes from a Big Country
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 8
Introduction
Page 9
Coming Home
Page 13
Help!
Page 16
Well, Doctor, I Was Just Trying to Lie Down
Page 19
Take Me Out to the Ball Park
Page 22
Dumb and Dumber
Page 26
Drug Culture
Page 30
Mail Call
Page 33
How to Have Fun at Home
Page 37
Design Flaws
Page 40
Wide-Open Spaces
Page 43
Rule Number 1: Follow All Rules
Page 47
The Mysteries of Christmas
Page 51
The Numbers Game
Page 55
Room Service
Page 59
Our Friend the Moose
Page 63
Consuming Pleasures
Page 67
Junk Food Heaven
Page 71
Tales of the North Woods
Page 75
Hail to the Chief
Page 79
Life in a Cold Climate
Page 83
Drowning in Red Tape
Page 87
The Wasteland
Page 91
Commercials, Commercials, Commercials
Page 95
Friendly People
Page 99
On the Hotline
Page 103
Those Boring Foreigners
Page 107
The Cupholder Revolution
Page 111
Your Tax Form Explained
Page 115
Warning: Anyone Having Fun Will Be Reported
Page 119
The States Explained
Page 123
The War on Drugs
Page 127
Why No One Walks
Page 131
Gardening with My Wife
Page 135
Why Everyone Is Worried
Page 139
A Failure to Communicate
Page 143
Lost at the Movies
Page 147
The Risk Factor
Page 151
Ab, Summer!
Page 155
Help for the Nondesignated Individual
Page 159
Where Scotland Is, and Other Useful Tips
Page 163
Dying Accents
Page 167
Inefficiency Report
Page 171
A Day at the Seaside
Page 175
Splendid Irrelevancies
Page 179
On Losing a Son
Page 183
Highway Diversions
Page 187
Snoopers at Work
Page 191
How to Hire a Car
Page 195
Fall in New England
Page 199
A Slight Inconvenience
Page 203
So Sue Me
Page 207
The Great Indoors
Page 211
A Visit to the Barbershop
Page 215
Book Tours
Page 219
Death Watch
Page 223
The Best American Holiday
Page 227
Deck the Halls
Page 231
The Waste Generation
Page 235
Shopping Madness
Page 239
Of Missing Planes and Missing Fingers
Page 243
Your New Computer
Page 247
In Praise of Diners
Page 251
Uniformly Awful
Page 255
The Fat of the Land
Page 259
The Sporting Life
Page 263
Last Night on the Titanic
Page 267
Fun in the Snow
Page 271
The Flying Nightmare
Page 275
Lost in Cyber Land
Page 279
Hotel California
Page 283
Enough Already
Page 287
Stupidity News
Page 291
Spinning the Truth
Page 295
For Your Convenience
Page 299
Old News
Page 303
Sense of Humour Failure
Page 307
The Accidental Tourist
Page 311
What Makes an Englishman
Page 315

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Library of Congress
E169.04 B792 1999

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL39222490M
Internet Archive
notesfrombigcoun0000bill
OCLC/WorldCat
837345795

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OL4620966W

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