{"product_id":"9781784161804","title":"The Lost Continent : Travels in Small-Town America","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Bryson, Bill, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 05\/11\/2015,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 384 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: Bryson, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Black Swan,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Transworld Publishers Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: USA, Travel writing\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781784161804\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of trim and sunny place where the films of his youth were set.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Instead, his search led him to Anywhere, USA; a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by lookalike people with a penchant for synthetic fibres. He discovered 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 stranger in his own land.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBryson's acclaimed first success, The Lost Continent is a classic of travel literature - hilariously, stomach-achingly, funny, yet tinged with heartache - and the book that first staked Bill Bryson's claim as the most beloved writer of his generation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35022832402585,"sku":"9781784161804","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781784161804.jpg?v=1602536488","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781784161804","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}