The Lost Continent

£8.99

SIGNED COPIES! This is the book that launched the career of one of the funniest and most successful travel writers working today - Bill Bryson.

Having been living in England for 10 years he decides to return to the United States, where he was born, in search of the mythical town of Amalgam. Trundling around small-town America in his mother’s car he passes through places he renames Smellville, Coleslaw, Dead Squaw, Coma and Doldrum until he reaches Anywhere, USA - where the gas stations, motels and hamburger joints all meld into one.

What he discovers is a continent lost to itself, blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television, and lost to him, as he is now a foreigner in his own land.