The Lost Continent : Travels in Small Town America

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Compact discs.
Unabridged.
"Sound Library"--Container.
Narrated by William Roberts.
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 aging Chevrolet Chevette, he drove nearly 14,000 miles through thirty-eight 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.

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You can't go home. submitted by tbbrown76 on July 2, 2014, 8:27pm But Bill tries. This is an excellent book. Well written and very funny.