BILL BRYSON

In "One Summer" Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports...

"Bill Bryson, célebre en todo el mundo por su Una breve historia de casi todo, aborda ahora un enigma mayúsculo: la personalidad de William Shakespeare. De Hamlet, Otelo, el rey Lear y Macbeth conocemos mucho, pero del ser humano que los concibió apenas sabemos nada. Armado de un sano sentido común y de su admirado don comunicativo, Bryson exami...

An omnibus edition of Bryson's )Down Under( and )A Walk In The Woods(.

This revised e-book features all photographs, designed in beautiful full-color.Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with original contributions from ""a glittering array of scientific writing talent"" (Sunday Observer) including Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick, and Neal St...

In summer 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. It was the summer that saw the birth of talking pictures, the i...