Bryson Bill

Fascynująca wyprawa badawcza po ludzkim ciele, pomagająca zrozumieć cud naszej neurologicznej i fizjologicznej konstrukcji.Bill Bryson po raz kolejny udowadnia, że jest niezrównanym towarzyszem podróży, gdy oprowadza nas po zakamarkach ludzkiego ciała - wyjaśnia jak ono funkcjonuje, podkreśla jego niebywałe zdolności do samoleczenia i sygnalizuje...

We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.'Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary...

Bezlitosna w osądzie i przezabawna w formie relacja o ponownym odkryciu Ameryki i poszukiwaniach idealnego miasteczka.Prawie nikt nie wyjeżdża z Des Moines w stanie Iowa. Jednak Bill Bryson wyjechał i po dziesięciu latach spędzonych w Anglii postanowił wybrać się do domu, który okazuje się dla niego… obcym krajem. W leciwym chevrolecie chevette...

It 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 has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer upped sticks with Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et al. and returned to live in the country he had left as a youth. Of...

This 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...