Bill Bryson:

"I'm a Stranger here Myself" [excerpt from # 6 below: "Notes from a Big Country"]

"Bill Bryson's African Diary" [excerpt from #8 below]

"A Short History of Nearly Everything" [excerpt from #9 below]

                                            Books by Bill Bryson:

A) "Travel(s)":

#1) The Lost Continent (1989), Travels in Small-town America

#2) Neither Here Nor There (1991), Travels in Europe

#3) Made in America (1994)

#4) Notes from a Small Island (1995)

#5) A Walk in the Woods (1997)

#6) Notes from a Big Country (1998), English title [= "I'm a Stranger Here Myself", American title]

#7) Down Under (2000)

#8) Bill Bryson's African Diary (2002)

NEW! #9) A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003!)   a) excerpt    b) review

B) "Language":

#10) [The Penguin Dictionary of] Troublesome Words (1984)

#11) Mother Tongue (1990)

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