Neither Here, Nor There
Author: Bryson, Bill
ISBN: 9781784161828
Publisher: BLACK SWAN
Year First Published: 2016
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 197mm x 126mm x 21mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Bill Bryson's second, achingly funny travel book, retracing his own steps as a student backpacking through Europe, twenty years later.
Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia. Fluent in, oh, at least one language, he retraces his travels as a student twenty years before.
Whether braving the homicidal motorists of Paris, being robbed by gypsies in Florence, attempting not to order tripe and eyeballs in a German restaurant or window-shopping in the sex shops of the Reeperbahn, Bryson takes in the sights, dissects the culture and illuminates each place and person with his hilariously caustic observations. He even goes to Liechtenstein.
ISBN: 9781784161828
Publisher: BLACK SWAN
Year First Published: 2016
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 197mm x 126mm x 21mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Bill Bryson's second, achingly funny travel book, retracing his own steps as a student backpacking through Europe, twenty years later.
Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia. Fluent in, oh, at least one language, he retraces his travels as a student twenty years before.
Whether braving the homicidal motorists of Paris, being robbed by gypsies in Florence, attempting not to order tripe and eyeballs in a German restaurant or window-shopping in the sex shops of the Reeperbahn, Bryson takes in the sights, dissects the culture and illuminates each place and person with his hilariously caustic observations. He even goes to Liechtenstein.
