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	Bill Bryson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William 'Bill' McGuire Bryson (born December 8, 1951) is a best-selling American author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and on scientific subjects.
		Bryson has also written two works on the history of the English language - Mother Tongue and Made in America - and, more recently, an update of his guide to usage, Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words (published in its first edition as The Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words in 1983).
		In 2005, Bryson was appointed Chancellor of Durham University, Durham being a place he had praised as "a perfect little city" in Notes from a Small Island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Bryson (809 words)

	A Short History of Nearly Everything - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bryson tells the story of science through the stories of the people who made the discoveries, such as Edwin Hubble, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein.
		Bill Bryson wrote this book because he was dissatisfied with his scientific knowledge — that was, not much at all.
		Bryson ends the book by noting how many extinctions humans are responsible for, and how lucky mankind is to be living on planet Earth today.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Everything (586 words)

	University News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bill Bryson — eleventh Chancellor of the University
		Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1951.
		Bill Bryson is a high profile international figure, famous not only for his books but also involved in promoting cultural and environmental issues.
	www.dur.ac.uk /news.service/more.php?item_type=news&itemID=829 (1231 words)

	Bill Bryson: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The mother tongue (isbn 0380715430) is a book by bill bryson which wittily compiles the history and origins of the english language and its various quirks....
		Brysons dictionary of troublesome words (isbn 0767910435) is a book by bill bryson that catalogues some of englishs most commonly misused words and phrases...
		A walk in the woods is a book by bill bryson describing his attempt to walk the appalachian trail with his friend katz....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bi/bill_bryson.htm (1738 words)

	Review \| In A Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bill Bryson has a well-developed sense of the ridiculous, the outlandish and sublime and he shares this with his readers in a generous, openhanded fashion.
		In a Sunburned Country, Bryson tells us that Australia is the largest island on the planet and -- in terms of land mass -- the sixth largest country.
		As Bryson says, Australia is a country so vast and empty "that a band of amateur enthusiasts could conceivably set off the world's first non-governmental atomic bomb on its mainland and almost four years would pass before anyone noticed.
	www.januarymagazine.com /nonfiction/sunburnedcountry.html (583 words)

	care, bill bryson team up on 'african diary'
		When acclaimed travel writer Bill Bryson goes on a trip, readers are in for a treat.
		The result is "Bill Bryson's African Diary," 10,000-word record of his travels in that country, including visits to CARE's poverty-fighting projects.
		In "African Diary," Bryson applies his trademark stamp of irreverent, poignant and fascinatingly instructive observation as he experiences Kenya's many contrasts, from its dramatic, diverse geography, famous game reserves and vibrant cultural life, to post-colonial poverty and the human and environmental challenges that it shares with much of Africa.
	www.care.org /newsroom/articles/2002/10/10252002_bryson.asp (267 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Bill Bryson
		Bill Bryson: I have a particular affection for it.
		Bryson: Australia had been a preposterously undesirable place where nobody wanted to go - no one wanted to be posted there, convicts didn't want to be sent there - and suddenly the whole world was trying to get there.
		Bryson's book, Mother Tongue, the one about the evolution of the English language in America and around the world, is the one that convinced me he could probably write informatively and with humor about anything.
	www.powells.com /authors/bryson.html (3282 words)

	Bill Bryson - A Walk in the Woods
		Bill Bryson is just an ordinary guy who happens to have a job as a writer.
		Bryson's hiking partner is an old friend with whom he's had minimal contact the past few years.
		Bryson talks about what used to be here before stupid humans mowed it down, or what used to live there before the government let the species go extinct.
	www.thebookhaven.net /Z_Walk_in_the_Woods.html (728 words)

	Bill Bryson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bill Bryson is an US journalist who lived in the UK for twenty years, from 1975 untill 1995.
		Bryson deftly mixed personal memories and anecdotes with social commentary about the British, some of their stranger habits and information about the towns and districts he visits.
		Language and especially the English language seems to be Bill Bryson's other major obsession (the first one being travelling) and as is usual with him he manages to translate his obsession into an eminently readable book, from which you can also learn something.
	www.cloggie.org /books/bryson.html (844 words)

	usnews.com: Technology: Next News: Across the Universe and Back Home with Bill Bryson (6/26/03)
		Bill Bryson is best known for his amusing travel books (A Walk in the Woods, In a Sunburned Country).
		Bryson: It would have to be Newton because he is the most enigmatic and would most benefit from having someone sit down with him.
		Bryson: I graduated from high school in 1970 and one of the most striking things to me was that almost everything I was taught was wrong, particularly things like plate tectonics.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/tech/nextnews/archive/next030626.htm (961 words)

	Interview \| Bill Bryson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Born and raised in the United States, Bryson moved to the United Kingdom when he was a young man and started his career as a journalist and travel writer there.
		In fact, Bryson was a well-loved and wildly selling British author before his books even raised an eyebrow "at home." At the time, home was in the UK and his wife and four children are all British subjects.
		In his travel books, Bryson looks at places baldly, unmasks any natural humor that might be lurking, gives us a glorious glimpse and then moves on.
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/bryson.html (3438 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Portrait: Bill Bryson
		Bryson was taken to Kenya by the charity Care International to see the work they do to counter extreme poverty.
		Bryson was shocked by what he saw when he visited Kibera, a settlement in Nairobi he calls the largest slum in Africa.
		Bryson has said it is strange that he became a travel writer because he isn't a social animal.
	www.guardian.co.uk /usa/story/0,12271,845088,00.html (1510 words)

	Alibris: Bill Bryson
		Bryson contemplates the state of the United States as he travels across the country in a visitation of family holidays and a quest for the apex of small-town America.
		Bill Bryson lived in Britain for 20 years, then returned with his family to the U.S. Here he writes about the process of re-entry--the shocks, the adjustments, the excesses, and (especially) the funny bits.
		Bill Bryson, author of the national bestseller The Mother Tongue, takes an informed and affectionate look at the history of the U.S. from the perspective of language and popular culture..
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Bryson,Bill (1092 words)

	Amazon.ca: Notes from a Small Island: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bryson does an excellent job of showing his adopted home to a Yank audience, but you never get the feeling that Bryson is too much of an outsider to know the true nature of the country.
		Bill Bryson is no twee, chocolate-boxy travel writer - he relates all the disasters along with the fun, in a manner that reminds you that most so-called travel disasters are never as bad as they seem.
		Bryson is not entirely uncritical of his adopted nation (and that's the fun part), but he's never nasty - and it's plain that his enthusiasm for England and all things English comes from deep in his heart.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0771017049 (724 words)

	Random House \| Authors \| Bill Bryson
		Compared to his Australian excursions, Bill Bryson had it easy on the Appalachian Trail. Nonetheless, Bryson has on serveral occasions embarked on seemingly endless flights bound for a land where Little Debbies are scarce but insects are abundant (up to 220,000 species of them), not to mention the crodiles.
		Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century—1951—in the middle of the United States—Des Moines, Iowa—in the middle of the largest generation in American history—the baby boomers.
		Bryson brings his unique brand of humour to travel writing as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet and heads for Europe. Travelling with Stephen Katz--also his wonderful sidekick in A Walk in the Woods--he wanders from Hammerfest in the far north, to Istanbul on the cusp of...
	www.primapublishing.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=3633 (1493 words)

	Bill Bryson Audio Books on CD and MP3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all why Mr.
		After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such bestsellers as The Mother Tongue and Made in America, decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while.
		Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language.
	www.learnoutloud.com /author_narrator.php?authid=154&subcatid=150 (837 words)

	Bill Bryson books reviews
		Bill Bryson, a middle-aged writer with almost no hiking experience - and in poor shape - hikes the Appalachian Trail with Stephen Katz, an old high school acquaintance, who himself has absolutely no hiking experience, has a seizure disorder, and is, as a bonus, morbidly obese.
		Notes From A Small Country is Bill Bryson's British swan song, a memoir of his travels written before leaving his beloved Britain to return home to the U.S. in the mid 90's.
		Bill soon feels like a foreigner in his own land; a land in which he finds no happy little burgs, but an endless strip of sloth, hamburger joints, motels, and gas stations; a land in which he finds the Smithsonian has been destructively tidied up, and...
	www.allreaders.com /Topics/Topic_1109.asp (748 words)

	ESPN.com - Page2 - Bill Bryson
		Bill Bryson is one of the world's most popular and entertaining travel writers.
		Page 2's Jim Caple caught up to Bryson to ask for his thoughts on sports across the globe, his memories of Ernie Banks and why rooting for the Red Sox is infinitely nobler than rooting for the Yankees...
		Bryson: But it would be pretty shameful if you suddenly lost the power and had to explain yourself.
	espn.go.com /page2/s/questions/bryson.html (2050 words)

	Bill Bryson - News & Information
		The chairman of this year's judges, Bill Bryson, who won the 2004 general prize for A Short History of Nearly Everything, was joined on the panel by forecaster...
		Chris is like the Bill Bryson of true crime when he lets loose...Chris has treated the murders in the most sympathetic way, and has not lost sight of the...
		Bill Bryson is American by birth, but the inbred cynicism and dark humour of his writings emerged only after a ten year round trip of the island.
	books.daylightonline.com /files/Bill_Bryson.html (1040 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Bill Bryson
		Bryson risked snake bite and hantavirus to trudge up unforgiving mountains, plod through swollen rivers, and yearn for cream sodas and hot showers.
		As usual Bill Bryson says it best: "English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense.
		This is a language where 'cleave' can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple word 'set' has 126 different meanings as a verb, 58 as a noun, and 10 as a participial adjective; whe...
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/BillBrysoneBooks.htm (420 words)

	Bill Bryson \| Bookshelf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bill Bryson is one of the world's most beloved and bestselling writers.
		To that end, Bill Bryson apprenticed himself to a host of the world's most profound scientific minds, living and dead.
		On his travels through space and time, Bill Bryson encounters a splendid gallery of the most fascinating, eccentric, competitive, and foolish personalities ever to ask a hard question.
	www.randomhouse.com /features/billbryson/bookshelf6.html (443 words)

	Bill Bryson´s African Diary Highlights
		Bill Bryson is that rare writer who can make readers laugh, think, and most important, feel deeply about his subject.
		Earlier this fall Bill Bryson made his first-ever trip to Kenya at the invitation of CARE, the international poverty-fighting organization.
		Bryson spent eight days with CARE representatives and native Kenyans, touring farms and cities and exploring the kind of CARE projects that keep hope alive.
	care.org /newsroom/articles/2002/12/12232002_bryson.asp?... (550 words)

	BookPage Interview May 2003: Bill Bryson
		In one memorable instance, Bryson spins the ironic tale of Thomas Midgley, an Ohio inventor responsible for two of the most devastating scientific developments of all time, leaded gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons.
		Having contributed so profoundly to the shortened lifespans of many of his fellow humans, Midgley's life was itself cut short by another of his inventions, a pulley-operated adjustable bed in which he became entangled and strangled to death.
		As many of his loyal readers know, Bryson was born in the States but lived in England for a number of years before settling for a time in a small New Hampshire town.
	www.bookpage.com /0305bp/bill_bryson.html (698 words)

	Bill Bryson \| Outside Online
		Bill Bryson hiked only 870 miles of the 2,174-mile Appalachian Trail to write his oddball account of the ordeal, A Walk in the Woods, but his many misadventures made up for all the missed miles.
		Bryson, born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1951, transplanted himself to England in 1977 where he wrote for the British newspapers, The Times and The Independent.
		Bryson has written several more travel books about America and Australia, as well as explorations of the how the English language is (mis)spoken.
	outside.away.com /outside/features/literary-all-stars_3.html (584 words)

	Bill Bryson News
		Bill Bryson has a writing style that makes the most difficult subjects accessible, and he unerringly finds the quirky and amusing...
		This new edition of the acclaimed bestseller is lavishly illustrated to convey, in pictures as in words, Bill Bryson's exciting, informative journey into the world of science.
		Bill Bryson was appointed the ceremonial head of Durham University, a northern England university.
	www.topix.net /who/bill-bryson (550 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Down Under: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bryson's absorbing and informative portrait is of a terrain so intractably vast, a land so climatically extreme, it seems expressly designed to daunt and torment humankind.
		As Bryson shuffles from state to state, he seeks the key to the uniquely cool Australian character and finds it in Australia's tragicomic past, her genetic seeding of convicts, explorers, gold diggers, outlaws.
		Bill Bryson concludes 'Down Under' by emphasising (for about the fiftieth time) that Australia is an interesting country.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/055299703X (1022 words)

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