AT HOME does for the history of the way we live what A Short History of Nearly Everything did for science. Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying battles and wars than to what history...

One Summer: America, 1927 von Bryson, Bill

Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. His bestselling books include The Road to Little Dribbling, Notes from a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods, One Summer and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. In a national poll,...

In "The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America" begibt sich der Autor Bill Bryson auf einen humorvollen und zugleich nachdenklichen Roadtrip durch die Vereinigten Staaten. Nach einem langen Aufenthalt in England kehrt Bryson in...

Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. His bestselling books include The Road to Little Dribbling, Notes from a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods, One Summer and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. In a national poll,...

What is the difference between mean and median, blatant and flagrant, flout and flaunt? Is it whodunnit or whodunit? Do you know? Are you sure?With Troublesome Words, journalist and bestselling travel-writer Bill Bryson gives us a clear,...

"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and simultaneously published in hardcover in Great Britain by Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers, a...

Der international preisgekrönte Bestseller »Eine kurze Geschichte von fast allem« – jetzt endlich wieder für junge Leser ab 10 Antworten auf große Fragen … Wie war das eigentlich mit dem Urknall? Warum starben die Dinosaurier aus? Was...

"Made In America: An Informal History of American English" von Bill Bryson bietet eine unterhaltsame und informative Erkundung der Entwicklung der amerikanischen Variante der englischen Sprache. Bryson untersucht, wie historische...

On his travels through time and space, he encounters a splendid collection of astonishingly eccentric, competitive, obsessive and foolish scientists, like the painfully shy Henry Cavendish who worked out many conundrums like how much the...

AT HOME has been called 'extraordinarily entertaining' (The Times), 'a work of constant delight and discovery' (Sunday Telegraph) and 'a wonderful celebration of what makes a house a home' (News of the World). Doing for social history...

With his signature wit, charm, and seemingly limitless knowledge, Bill Bryson takes us on a room-by-room tour through his own house, using each room as a jumping off point into the vast history of the domestic artifacts we take for...