Bryson, Bill

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.

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

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