"Neither Here Nor There" is is a book to be enjoyed. It is well written, full of down to earth humour and the content is both interesting and entertaining from start to finish. I don't know how many miles Bill Bryson has walked on his travels but the total must surely be more than a thousand so he gets to see things at ground level as they /5(K). · From line onwards, Bryson expresses the difficulties he faced when attempting to catch a cab to the Gare du Nord and then a train to Brussels. He humorously explains to the reader about the miserable weather and rude people encountered when doing so. The writer describes the rain as being 'grey' suggesting a negative and depressing mood. Description. Condition: Bill Bryson’s first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in bltadwin.ru Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia.
Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe Not long before the holidays, a good friend and I were reminiscing about our long-ago adventures traveling (me) and living in (her) Europe. She immediately asked me if I had read Bill Bryson's hilarious travelogue, Neither Here Nor There, about his experiences traveling all around Europe. Having groused his way across America in The Lost Continent (), Bryson (The Mother Tongue, ) now turns his attention to Europe. If it is any consolation to Americans, Bryson, an ex-midwesterner who has lived in England for the past 15 years, finds almost nothing to praise between the Arctic Circle and the Bosporus. Bryson's crankiness could have proved amusing—after all, Mark Twain's. Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe Bill Bryson Paperback, pp. US $ ISBN Notes from a Small Island: An Affectionate Portrait of Britain Bill Bryson Paperback, pp. US $ ISBN
Description. Condition: Bill Bryson’s first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in bltadwin.ru Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia. Which is exactly why Bill Bryson, an American- born British writer renowned for his great sense of wit and superb command of the English language, decided to embark on his journey once again twenty years after he and his pal Katz backpacked across Europe. Bryson wanted to see Europe in itself with a tabula rosa and write something about the cultures that seemed at once so different and yet so oddly similar in his own eyes. Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia.
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