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,...

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,...

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...

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...

"A Really Short History of Nearly Everything" von Bill Bryson ist eine kindgerechte Adaption seines populären Sachbuchs "A Short History of Nearly Everything". In diesem Buch führt Bryson junge Leser auf eine faszinierende Reise durch...

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,...

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...

Englisch lernen mit Bill Bryson: Nach zwanzig Jahren in England kehrt Bill Bryson mit seiner Familie in seine Heimat Amerika zurück und muss feststellen, dass sich während seiner Abwesenheit einiges verändert hat. In seinen Kolumnen...