The Lost Continent

Resumen del libro

'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.'


And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the films of his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Dead Squaw, Coma, Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA; a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He found a continent that was doubly lost;lost to itself because blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p BILL BRYSON (Des Moines, Iowa, en 1951). Inició la carrera de Periodismo en Estados Unidos, pero la interrumpió para viajar por Europa. En 1977 se instaló en North Yorkshire, Inglaterra, donde residió dos décadas y trabajó en periódicos como x{0026}lt;i The Timesx{0026}lt;/i o x{0026}lt;i The Independentx{0026}lt;/i . Aunque también se ha dedicado a la enseñanza (llegó a ser rector de la Universidad de Durham), actualmente se dedica sobre todo a escribir. Además de x{0026}lt;i El cuerpo humanox{0026}lt;/i es autor de, entre otros libros superventas, x{0026}lt;i Una breve historia de casi todox{0026}lt;/i (Premio Aventis de libros de ciencia y finalista del Premio Samuel Johnson); x{0026}lt;i Un paseo por el bosquex{0026}lt;/i , x{0026}lt;i En casa: una breve historia de la vida privadax{0026}lt;/i ; x{0026}lt;i En las antípodasx{0026}lt;/i ; x{0026}lt;i Aventuras y desventuras del Chico Centellax{0026}lt;/i ; x{0026}lt;i 1927: un verano que cambió el mundox{0026}lt;/i y x{0026}lt;i Shakespearex{0026}lt;/i , todos publicados por RBA.x{0026}lt;/p