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The Resource The lost continent, Bill Bryson, (electronic resource)
The lost continent, Bill Bryson, (electronic resource)
Resource Information
The item The lost continent, Bill Bryson, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item The lost continent, Bill Bryson, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- Hardly anyone ever leaves Des Moines, Iowa. But Bill Bryson did, and after ten years in England he decided to go home -- to a foreign country. In an ageing Chevrolet Chevette, he drove nearly 14,000 miles through 38 states to compile this hilarious and perceptive state-of-the-nation report on small-town America. From the Deep South to the Wild West, from Elvis' birthplace through to Custer's Last Stand, Bryson visits places he re-named Dullard, Coma and Doldrum (so the residents don't sue or come after him with baseball bats). But his hopes of finding the American dream end in a nightmare of greed, ignorance and pollution. This is a wickedly witty and savagely funny assessment of a country lost to itself -- and to him. Travel through small-town America with Kerry Shale's popular BBC Radio 4 reading of Bill Bryson's comic travelogue
- Language
- eng
- Note
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- Downloadable audio file
- Title from: Title details screen
- Unabridged
- Duration: 2:18:51
- Isbn
- 9781405697569
- Label
- The lost continent
- Title
- The lost continent
- Statement of responsibility
- Bill Bryson
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Hardly anyone ever leaves Des Moines, Iowa. But Bill Bryson did, and after ten years in England he decided to go home -- to a foreign country. In an ageing Chevrolet Chevette, he drove nearly 14,000 miles through 38 states to compile this hilarious and perceptive state-of-the-nation report on small-town America. From the Deep South to the Wild West, from Elvis' birthplace through to Custer's Last Stand, Bryson visits places he re-named Dullard, Coma and Doldrum (so the residents don't sue or come after him with baseball bats). But his hopes of finding the American dream end in a nightmare of greed, ignorance and pollution. This is a wickedly witty and savagely funny assessment of a country lost to itself -- and to him. Travel through small-town America with Kerry Shale's popular BBC Radio 4 reading of Bill Bryson's comic travelogue
- Accompanying matter
- libretto or text
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bryson, Bill
- Dewey number
- 917.304
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- LC call number
- E169.04
- LC item number
- .B782 2003ab
- Literary text for sound recordings
- other
- Music parts
- not applicable
- PerformerNote
- Read by Kerry Shale
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Shale, Kerry
- BBC Audiobooks Ltd
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Bryson, Bill
- Cities and towns
- United States
- United States
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- The lost continent, Bill Bryson, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Note
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- Downloadable audio file
- Title from: Title details screen
- Unabridged
- Duration: 2:18:51
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- stereophonic
- Control code
- ocn173282649
- Dimensions
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- not applicable
- unknown
- Form of item
- electronic
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781405697569
- Isbn Type
- (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
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- other
- remote
- Speed
- unknown
- System control number
- (OCoLC)173282649
- System details
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- Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 33263 KB)
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- The lost continent, Bill Bryson, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Note
-
- Downloadable audio file
- Title from: Title details screen
- Unabridged
- Duration: 2:18:51
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- stereophonic
- Control code
- ocn173282649
- Dimensions
-
- not applicable
- unknown
- Form of item
- electronic
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781405697569
- Isbn Type
- (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- Speed
- unknown
- System control number
- (OCoLC)173282649
- System details
-
- Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 33263 KB)
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
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