Bryson, Bill

The author presents anecdotes from and reflections on his travels through Great Britain, covering such places as Dover, London, the Cotswolds, Oxford, Manchester, and Liverpool.

A linguistic history, told through anecdote and humor, of American speech and English word usage in the United States.

Draws from the history of human knowledge about the universe to tell the universe and humanity's story, presenting a scientific chronicle of life on Earth stretching from the Big Bang to the rise of "Homo sapiens," and discusses extinction.

Travel writer Bill Bryson chronicles the experiences he had and profiles the people and wildlife he encountered while traveling through Australia.

Author Bill Bryson provides an account of his experiences hiking the Appalachian Trail with a childhood friend, telling of how they survived a blizzard, got lost, and had encounters with eccentric characters, and rude yuppies along the way.

Bill Bryson recounts some of the strange experiences he had when he returned to the United States after living in Britain for twenty years.

Covers the history of language from its beginnings to the explosion of English as a global language in the twentieth century.

Draws from the history of human knowledge about the universe to tell the universe and humanity's story, presenting a scientific chronicle of life on Earth stretching from the Big Bang to the rise of "Homo sapiens," and discusses extinction.

The author engages in a series of discussions about various historical aspects of ordinary life while wandering from room to room in his Victorian home in England, covering topics such as hygiene, sex, death, nutrition, the spice trade, and other domestic signs of things that occur out in the world.

Bill Bryson investigates the slim facts known about the life of William Shakespeare, looks at some of the more unusual speculations about the great playwright and poet, and surveys the theories of people who have sought to debunk Shakespeare's authorship.