Bill Bryson's second, achingly funny travel book, retracing his own steps as a student backpacking through Europe, twenty years later.
Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. His bestselling
books include The Road to Little Dribbling, Notes from a Small
Island, A Walk in the Woods, One Summer and The Life and Times of
the Thunderbolt Kid. In a national poll, Notes from a Small Island
was voted the book that best represents Britain. His acclaimed work
of popular science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the
Aventis Prize and the Descartes Prize, and was the biggest selling
non-fiction book of its decade in the UK. His new book The Body- A
Guide for Occupants is an extraordinary exploration of the human
body which will have you marvelling at the form you occupy.
Bill Bryson was Chancellor of Durham University 2005-2011. He is an
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. He lives in England.
A breezy and entertaining account of what it is like to be utterly
at sea in a continent most of his readers will regard as
familiar
*Independent on Sunday*
Hugely funny (not snigger-snigger funny, but
great-big-belly-laugh-till-you-cry funny)
*Daily Telegraph*
Undoubtedly the most enjoyable travel book of the year
*Time Out*
This is the travel book that every Inter-Rail vagrant would love to
write; the Animal House of the genre
*New Statesman*
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