Bill Bryson (43 kníh)
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Bill Bryson A Really Short History of Nearly Everything ENBill's own fascination with science began with a battered old schoolbook he had when he was about ten or eleven years old in America. It had an illustration that captivated him - a cutaway diagram showing Earth's interior as it would look if you cut into it with a large knife and carefully removed about a quarter of its bulk. And he very clearly remembers thinking: 'How do they know that'? Bill's story-telling skill…
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Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything ENBill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally…
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Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything ENThe legions of fans who buy Bill Bryson's travel books and voted him a favourite author for World Book Day won't quite know what to make of the amiable traveller's latest offering. Transworld has dubbed it for all those who couldn't understand A Brief History of Time (and on that basis, if they all buy a copy it will be an instant bestseller). Bryson applies his naturally enquiring mind and his way with words which…
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Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything ENBill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects…
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Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods ENIn the company of his friend Stephen Katz (last seen in the bestselling Neither Here nor There), Bill Bryson set off to hike the Appalachian Trail, the longest continuous footpath in the world. Ahead lay almost 2,200 miles of remote mountain wilderness filled with bears, moose, bobcats, rattlesnakes, poisonous plants, disease-bearing tics, the occasional chuckling murderer and - perhaps most alarming of all - people…
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Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods ENIn the company of his friend Stephen Katz (last seen in the bestselling Neither Here nor There), Bill Bryson set off to hike the Appalachian Trail, the longest continuous footpath in the world. Ahead lay almost 2,200 miles of remote mountain wilderness filled with bears, moose, bobcats, rattlesnakes, poisonous plants, disease-bearing tics, the occasional chuckling murderer and - perhaps most alarming of all - people…
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Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods ENThe funniest travel writer in the world takes a hike. The longest continuous footpath in the world, the Appalachian Trail stretches along the East Coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine, through some of the most arresting and celebrated landscapes in America. At the age of forty-four, in the company of his friend Stephen Katz (last seen in the bestselling Neither Here nor There), Bill Bryson set off to…
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Bill Bryson Amerika 1927 CZAmerika v létě roku 1927 zažila mnoho neuvěřitelných věcí. Měla prezidenta, který pracoval jen čtyři hodiny denně, legendárního baseballistu, první televizi, ale hlavně Charlese Lindbergha. Tento stydlivý mladý muž jako první přeletěl Atlantik a stal se hrdinou. Bill Bryson i tentokrát dostál své pověsti a stvořil dílo, jež vás vtáhne do atmosféry tehdejší americké společnosti.
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Bill Bryson Appalačská stezka CZNejdelší nepřerušená stezka na světě, Appalačská stezka, se táhne podél východního pobřeží USA, z Georgie do Maine, nádhernou krajinou, která patří k nejkrásnějším v Americe. Dobrodruh Bil Bryson se svým společníkem se po ní vydal pěšky, před sebou víc než 3500 kilometrů horské divočiny plné medvědů, rysů, hadů a jedovatých rostlin. Potýkal se s krutou nepřízní počasí, nespolehlivými mapami a svérázným parťákem,…
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Bill Bryson At Home ENIn At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A Short History of Nearly Everythingone of the most lauded books of the last decade, and delivers one of the most entertaining and illuminating books ever written about the history of the way we live.
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Bill Bryson At Home ENWhat does history really consist of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable. And where did all these normal activities take place? At home.This was the thought that inspired Bill Bryson to start a journey around the rooms of his own house, an 1851 Norfolk rectory, to consider how the ordinary things in life came to be. And what he…
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Bill Bryson At Home ENBill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of: centuries of people quietly going about their daily business – eating, sleeping and merely endeavouring to get more comfortable. And that most of the key discoveries for humankind can be found in the very fabric of the houses in which we live…
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Bill Bryson Down Under ENIt is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life - a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else. Ignoring such dangers - and yet curiously obsessed by them - Bill Bryson journeyed to Australia and promptly fell in love with…
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Bill Bryson Down Under ENIt was as if I had privately discovered life on another planet, or a parallel universe where life was at once recognizably similar but entirely different. I can't tell you how exciting it was. Insofar as I had accumulated my expectations of Australia at all in the intervening years, I had thought of it as a kind of alternative southern California, a place of constant sunshine and the cheerful vapidity of a beach…
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Bill Bryson Dům CZJednoho dne Billa Brysona zaujala myšlenka, že mnohem více času věnujeme studiu válek a všelijakých historických bitev a nezabýváme se tím, z čeho se běžné dějiny doopravdy skládají: ze staletí, během kterých lidé tiše vykonávali své každodenní činnosti – jedli, spali a pokoušeli se zjednodušit si život. A také jej překvapila myšlenka, že klíčové vynálezy lidských dějin lze nalézt přímo v našich domovech. To jej…
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Bill Bryson Hlavou dolů CZHumorně laděný cestopis napsaný zvídavým a přemýšlivým autorem, který si pro svůj osobitý styl už stačil ve světě získat nemalou oblibu. Proto jsme usoudili, že by byla nesmírná škoda, kdyby tento svérázný gentleman zůstal českým čtenářům osobou neznámou, a že je tudíž nejvyšší čas pozvat ho na pulty našich knihkupectví. Jeho kniha je plná nečekaných pohledů, postřehů, setkání a zážitků, přičemž se jen tak…
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Bill Bryson Icons of England ENThis celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub signs to seaside piers, from cattle grids to canal boats, and from village cricket to nimbies. First published as a…
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Bill Bryson Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid (mäkká väzba) ENBill Bryson’s first travel book opened with the immortal line, ‘I come from Des Moines.Somebody had to.’ In this deeply funny new book, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, in the curious world of 1950s America.It was a happy time, when almost everything was good for you, including DDT, cigarettes and nuclear fallout.This is a book about one boy’s growing up.But in Bryson’s hands, it…
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Bill Bryson Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (tvrdá väzba) ENSome say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt. It may have looked like an old college football sweater, but young Bryson knew better. It was obviously the Sacred Jersey…
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Bill Bryson Made in America EN‘Funny, wise, learned and compulsive’ - GQBill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid andNotes from a Big Country, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture. In Made in America, Bryson tells the story of how American arose out…
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Bill Bryson Neither Here Nor There ENA travel book in which the author journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on the European continent, to Istanbul. In doing so he retraces his steps as a student 20 years before, visiting many countries, including Norway, France and Italy.
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Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island ENIn 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill 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…
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