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The lost continent, travels in small town America, Bill Bryson ; read by William Roberts

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The lost continent

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Bill Bryson ; read by William Roberts

travels in small town America

Hardly anyone ever leaves Des Moines, Iowa. But Bill Bryson did. And after 10 years in England he decided to go home, to a foreign country. In an ageing Chevrolet Chevette, he drove nearly 14,000 miles through 38 states to compile this hilarious and perceptive state-of-the-nation report on small-town America. From the Deep South to the Wild West, from Elvis' birthplace through to Custer's Last Stand, Bryson visits places he re-named Dullard, Coma, and Doldrum (so the residents don't sue or come after him with baseball bats). But his hopes of finding the American dream end in a nightmare of greed, ignorance, and pollution. This is a wickedly witty and savagely funny assessment of a country lost to itself, and to him

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