Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Mother Tongue
ISBN: 0241976049 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241976043
Издательство: Penguin Books Ltd
Цена: 747 р.
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Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Mother Tongue
ISBN: 014014305X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140143058
Издательство: Penguin Books Ltd
Цена: 672 р.
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: Examining the mother tongue, this book explores the countless varieties of English and the perils of marketing brands with names like Pschitt and Super Piss. It also contains sections on the oddities of swearing and spelling, spoonerisms and Scrabble, and a consideration of what we mean by `good English`.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Short History of Nearly Everything (A)
ISBN: 0552151742 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552151740
Издательство: Random House
Цена: от 549 р.
Наличие на складе: Есть

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Walk In The Woods
ISBN: 1784161446 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784161446
Издательство: Random House
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Цена: от 606 р.
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Описание: Ahead lay almost 2,200 miles of remote mountain wilderness filled with bears, moose, bobcats, rattlesnakes, poisonous plants, disease-bearing tics, the occasional chuckling murderer and - perhaps most alarming of all - people whose favourite pastime is discussing the relative merits of the external-frame backpack.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: One Summer
ISBN: 0552779407 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552779401
Издательство: Random House
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Цена: от 618 р.
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Описание: In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became the most famous man on earth.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Troublesome Words
ISBN: 0141040394 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141040394
Издательство: Penguin Books Ltd
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Цена: от 747 р.
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Описание: A guide to the problems of English usage and spelling. It lets you discover whether you should care about split infinitives, or were wondering if that newsreader was right to say `an historic day`.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: In a Sunburned Country
ISBN: 055350259X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553502596
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 3039 р.
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.

Описание: Read by the author
Nine CDs, 10 hours

Just in time for the 2000 Olympics-the bestselling quthor of A Walk in the Woods takes listeners on a truly outrageous tour Down Under.

Compared to his Australian excursions, Bill Bryson had it easy on the Appalachian Trail. Nonetheless, Bryson has on several occasions embarked on seemingly endless flights bound for a land where Little Debbies are scarce but insects are abundant (up to 220,000 species of them), not to mention crocodiles.

Taking listeners on a rollicking ride far beyond packaged-tour routes, IN A SUNBURNED COUNTRY introduces a place where interesting things happen all the time. Leaving no Vegemite unsavored, listeners will accompany Bryson as he dodges jellyfish while learning to surf at Bondi Beach, discovers a fish that can climb trees, dehydrates in deserts where temperatures leap to 140 degrees F, and tells the true story of the rejected Danish architect who designed the Sydney Opera House.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: I`m a Stranger Here Myself
ISBN: 0553456504 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553456509
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1822 р.
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Notes from a Small Island
ISBN: 0553455931 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553455939
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1822 р.
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: A Walk in the Woods
ISBN: 0553455923 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553455922
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1822 р.
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Описание: "Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire, I happened upon a path that vanished into a wood on the edge of town."

So begins Bill Bryson's hilarious book A Walk in the Woods. Following his return to America after twenty years in Britain, Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine. The AT, as it's affectionately known to thousands of hikers, offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to test his own powers of ineptitude, and to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings.

For a start, there's the gloriously out-of-shape Stephen Katz, a buddy from Iowa who accompanies the similarly unfit Bryson on the trail. Once Bryson and Katz settle into their stride, it's not long before they come across the fabulously annoying Mary Ellen, whose disappearance ruins a perfectly good slice of pie, a gang of Ralph Lauren-attired yuppies from whom Katz appropriates a key piece of equipment, and a security guard in Pennsylvania who, for no ascertainable reason, impounds Bryson's car. Mile by arduous mile these latter-day pioneers walk America, along the way surviving the threat of bear attacks, the loss of key provisions, and everything else this awe-inspiring country can throw at them.

But A Walk in the Woods is more than just a laugh-out-loud hike. Bryson's acute eye is a wise witness to this fragile and beautiful trail, and as he tells its fascinating history, he makes a moving plea for the conservation of America's last great wilderness. An adventure, a comedy, a lament, and a celebration, A Walk in the Woods is destined to become a modern classic of travel literature.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: In a Sunburned Country
ISBN: 0553502557 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553502558
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 2431 р.
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: I`m a Stranger Here Myself
ISBN: 055352626X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553526264
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1579 р.
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Neither Here Nor There
ISBN: 055352576X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553525762
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1579 р.
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: Notes from a Small Island
ISBN: 0553525077 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553525076
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1579 р.
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: A Walk in the Woods
ISBN: 0553525069 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553525069
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1579 р.
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.

Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: A Short History of Nearly Everything
ISBN: 0767908171 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780767908177
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1947 р.
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Автор: Bryson Bill
Название: A Short History of Nearly Everything
ISBN: 076790818X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780767908184
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1034 р.
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Описание: One of the world's most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand -- and, if possible, answer -- the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world's most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly Everything""is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.

"From the Hardcover edition."