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Bill Bryson


Born
in Des Moines, Iowa, The United States
December 08, 1951

Genre
Travel, Nonfiction


Bill Bryson is a bestselling American-British author known for his witty and accessible nonfiction books spanning travel, science, and language. He rose to prominence with Notes from a Small Island (1995), an affectionate portrait of Britain, and solidified his global reputation with A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003), a popular science book that won the Aventis and Descartes Prizes. Raised in Iowa, Bryson lived most of his adult life in the UK, working as a journalist before turning to writing full-time. His other notable works include A Walk in the Woods, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and The Mother Tongue. Bryson served as Chancellor of Durham University (2005–2011) and received numerous honorary degrees and awards, ...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 1,850,709 ratings · 113,844 reviews · 96 distinct works • Similar authors
A Walk in the Woods: Redisc...
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A Short History of Nearly E...
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In a Sunburned Country
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Notes from a Small Island
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The Body: A Guide for Occup...
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At Home: A Short History of...
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Neither Here nor There: Tra...
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself:...
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“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
tags: improbability, life
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“But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”
― Bill Bryson, Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
tags: travel
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“As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?”
― Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
tags: cynicism, humor
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De acht bergen van Paolo Cognetti - 239 pagina's
 
  21 votes, 19.6%

Het zoutpad van Raynor Winn - 320 pagina's
 
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De Wildernis in van Jon Krakauer - 284 pagina's
 
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Terug in Amerika van Bill Bryson - 301 pagina's
 
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Dor van Neal Shusterman - 453 pagina's
 
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De wilde stilte van Raynor Winn - 318 pagina's
 
  3 votes, 2.8%

 
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Schemervluchten van Helen Macdonald - 304 pagina's
 
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