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Title:Notes From a Small Island
Price:AUD$8.95 (about USD$5.90)
ISBN:9780552996006
Item ID:P002-3573
Quantity:1
Publisher:Black Swan, London, 1998
Edition:First
Binding:Softcover
Condition:Near Fine
Black Swan, 1998, Softcover, Book Condition: Near Fine, First

Fifth or later impression. Size: Duodecimo12mo. 352 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is currently IN STOCK and would be shipped directly from our Australian address.. After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson took the decision to move back to the States for a few years, to let his kids experience life in another country, to give his wife the chance to shop until 10 p.m. seven nights a week, and, most of all, because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, and it was thus clear to him that his people needed him. But before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of the nation's public face and private parts (as it were), and to analyse what precisely it was he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite, a military hero whose dying wish was to be kissed by a fellow named Hardy, place names like Farleigh Wallop, Titsey and Shellow Bowells, people who said 'Mustn't grumble', and Gardeners' Question Time. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Travel & Places; ISBN: 0552996009. ISBN/EAN: 9780552996006. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3573.
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