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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America is a book by travel writer Bill Bryson, chronicling his 13,978 mile trip around the United States in the autumn of 1987 and spring 1988. It was Bryson's first travel book.
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- warmbleak
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- Author
- Bill Bryson
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 319
- Publisher
- Goldmann Verlag, SECKER & WARBURG (RA, Abacus
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- Chinese, Korean, English
- ISBN
- 9781784161804
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"William McGuire "Bill" Bryson is a best-selling Anglo-American author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and science." - Wikipedia
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