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The Lost Continent

Travels in Small Town America

by Bill Bryson

ISBN: 0060920084
ISBN-13: 9780060920081
Format: Paperback

Summary

Bryson contemplates the state of the United States as he travels across the country in a visitation of family holidays and a quest for the apex of small-town America.

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Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Harpercollins
Published date: 1990
Size: 5.5 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 0.55 pounds

Publisher's Notes

An inspiring and hilarious account of one man's rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town. "The kind of book Steinbeck might have written if he'd traveled with David Letterman."--New York magazine

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