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“I’m from Des Moines. Someone had to
And as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. De Moyne couldn’t stand it, but it dragged him back. After ten years in England, he returned to his youth and traveled nearly 23,000 miles in search of the mythical city called Amalgam, such a beautiful and sunny place where the films of his youth were set. Instead, his search led him to every place, the United States; a bar full of gas stations, motels and burger joints populated by people who are sensitive to synthetic fibers. He has traveled to the thirty-eight lower states – united only in their formidable, sad uniformity – he discovers a continent twice lost; lost himself because he was polluted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost him because he became a foreigner in his own country.
The Lost Continent is a classic travel literature – hilarious, hilarious, hilarious and sad at the same time – and a book that first embraced Bill Bryson’s claim as the most popular author of his generation.. The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson