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A Really Short History of Nearly Everything»rank: 168par: Bill Bryson
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:There must be a special place in author's heaven for writers like Bill Bryson (ln a Sunburned Country, Neither Here Nor There), those bold enough to tackle the seemingly insurmountable and, improbably, succeed. With the aptly named A Short History of Nearly Everything Bryson has, quite simply, documented the advent of the universe in just under 500 pages, charting the evolution of man, planet Earth, its oceans and mountains, and all the atoms holding them together. And he explores the cosmos beyond. He asks how each was created and then ... |
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A Short History of Nearly Everything»rank: 185par: Bill Bryson
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:There must be a special place in author's heaven for writers like Bill Bryson (ln a Sunburned Country, Neither Here Nor There), those bold enough to tackle the seemingly insurmountable and, improbably, succeed. With the aptly named A Short History of Nearly Everything Bryson has, quite simply, documented the advent of the universe in just under 500 pages, charting the evolution of man, planet Earth, its oceans and mountains, and all the atoms holding them together. And he explores the cosmos beyond. He asks how each was created and then ... |
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In a Sunburned Country»rank: 17376par: Bill Bryson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Bill Bryson follows his Appalachian amble, A Walk in the Woods, with the story of his exploits in Australia, where A-bombs go off unnoticed, prime ministers disappear into the surf, and cheery citizens coexist with the world's deadliest creatures: toxic caterpillars, aggressive seashells, crocodiles, sharks, snakes, and the deadliest of them all, the dreaded box jellyfish. And that's just the beginning, as Bryson treks through sunbaked deserts and up endless coastlines, crisscrossing the 'under-discovered' Down Under in search of all things interesting. Bryson, who could make a pile of ... |
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America Along the Appalachian Trail»rank: 6525par: Bill Bryson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Bill Bryson follows his Appalachian amble, A Walk in the Woods, with the story of his exploits in Australia, where A-bombs go off unnoticed, prime ministers disappear into the surf, and cheery citizens coexist with the world's deadliest creatures: toxic caterpillars, aggressive seashells, crocodiles, sharks, snakes, and the deadliest of them all, the dreaded box jellyfish. And that's just the beginning, as Bryson treks through sunbaked deserts and up endless coastlines, crisscrossing the 'under-discovered' Down Under in search of all things interesting. Bryson, who could make a pile of ... |
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The Mother Tongue»rank: 3260par: Bill Bryson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Who would have thought that a book about English would be so entertaining? Certainly not this grammar-allergic reviewer, but The Mother Tongue pulls it off admirably. Bill Bryson--a zealot--is the right man for the job. Who else could rhapsodize about 'the colorless murmur of the schwa' with a straight face? lt is his unflagging enthusiasm, seeping from between every sentence, that carries the book. Bryson displays an encyclopedic knowledge of his topic, and this inevitably encourages a light tone; the more you know about a subject, the more absurd ... |
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Troublesome Words»rank: 7401par: Bill Bryson
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:lt is nearly 20 years since Bill Bryson first penned his deliciously witty paean to precision Troublesome Words. Now he has revised it and 60 per cent of the content is new so it's well worth another browse and a place on the desk corner of anyone who likes words and who wants to get things right. 0nce a sub-editor at The Times, Bryson is irresistibly drawn to knowing that 'to flaunt' means to display ostentatiously but 'to flout' means to treat with contempt. 0r that a straitjacket may ... |
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Bill Bryson's African Diary»rank: 2782par: Bill Bryson
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:ln this slim, invigorating volume, the author of Notes from a Small lsland and A Walk in the Woods sets his dry, Midwestern fish-out-of-water wit on Kenya. For eight days in the fall of 2002, Bill Bryson, accompanied by workers from the international poverty-fighting organization CARE, toured the East African country, visiting various CARE-sponsored projects and meeting the locals. 0ne of these is Dr. Mbua. Among Bryson's interests is the human fossil record, and so an appointment at the National Museum--which 'has the finest collection of early human remains in ... |
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage»rank: 694par: Bill Bryson
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:ln this slim, invigorating volume, the author of Notes from a Small lsland and A Walk in the Woods sets his dry, Midwestern fish-out-of-water wit on Kenya. For eight days in the fall of 2002, Bill Bryson, accompanied by workers from the international poverty-fighting organization CARE, toured the East African country, visiting various CARE-sponsored projects and meeting the locals. 0ne of these is Dr. Mbua. Among Bryson's interests is the human fossil record, and so an appointment at the National Museum--which 'has the finest collection of early human remains in ... |
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Notes from a Small Island»rank: 2275par: Bill Bryson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Reacting to an itch common to Midwesterners since there's been a Midwest from which to escape, writer Bill Bryson moved from lowa to Britain in 1973. Working for such places as Times of London, among others, he has lived quite happily there ever since. Now Bryson has decided his native country needs him--but first, he's going on a roundabout jaunt on the island he loves. Britain fascinates Americans: it's familiar, yet alien; the same in some ways, yet so different. Bryson does an excellent job of showing his adopted ... |
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A Short History of Nearly Everything»rank: 19823par: Bill Bryson
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:There must be a special place in author's heaven for writers like Bill Bryson (ln a Sunburned Country, Neither Here Nor There), those bold enough to tackle the seemingly insurmountable and, improbably, succeed. With the aptly named A Short History of Nearly Everything Bryson has, quite simply, documented the advent of the universe in just under 500 pages, charting the evolution of man, planet Earth, its oceans and mountains, and all the atoms holding them together. And he explores the cosmos beyond. He asks how each was created and then ... |