Neither here Nor there
β Scribed by Bryson, Bill
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Anyone who has been to Europe will be engaged by the blend of awe and bewilderment that Bill Bryson brings to this uproariously funny memoir of a trip around the Continent. Deciding to get a jump on a budding midlife crisis, he loads a bag with maps and old clothes and sets off to retrace the journey he took as a young backpacker in the 1970s, accompanied by an unforgettable sidekick named Stephen Katz (who will be gloriously familiar to readers of Brysonβs A Walk in the Woods). Interweaving his comic misadventures from the first trip with the razor-sharp insights of his older self, Bryson wanders through Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Rome, Geneva, Vienna. and other great cities of Europe. With affection and wit he explains why the French are constitutionally incapable of βqueuing,β why Yugoslavian beer erocourages your legs to βgo in for a tittle involuntary moonwalking,β and asks: Why didnβt the armistice treaty require the Germans to lay down their accordions along with their arms?
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