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Rated: 11 times. Average rating 4.45
Description
Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood...and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle call his befeathered cap "Macaroni."
Books by Bill Bryson:
- Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors (2008)
- The Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid (2006)
- The Mother Tongue (1991)
- A Walk in the Woods (2007)
- Neither Here Nor There: (1993)
- A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003)
- A Really Short History of Nearly Everything (2009)
- The Lost Continent (1990)
- At Home (2011)
- Notes from a Small Island (1997)
- I'm a stranger here myself (1999)
- Notes from a Big Country (1999)
- Made in America (1996)
- Shakespeare (The Illustrated and Updated Edition) (2009)
- In a Sunburned Country (2001)
- Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words (2004)
- One Summer (2014)
- Walk about (2002)
