Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. Settled in England for many years, he moved to America with his wife and four children for a few years, but has since returned to live in the UK. His bestselling travel books include The Lost Continent, Notes From a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods and Down Under. His acclaimed work of popular science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the Aventis Prize and the Descartes Prize, and was the biggest selling non-fiction book of the decade in the UK.
Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia. Fluent in, oh, at least one language, he retraces his travels as a student twenty years before. Whether braving the homicidal motorists of Paris, being robbed by gypsies in Florence, attempting not to order tripe and eyeballs in a German restaurant or window-shopping in the sex shops of the Reeperbahn, Bryson takes in the sights, dissects the culture and illuminates each place and person with his hilariously caustic observations. He even goes to Liechtenstein.
發表於2024-11-27
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I learned the fact that Bryson was popular (besides Wikipedia says so) from the library checking status list. I’m so used to that when searching for certain writer, all his works would be neatly listed with the status description of “available at xxx libr...
評分不知道有多少人有自助遊歐洲的夢想。 對於離歐洲太遠的人,比如我,就覺得如果去瞭一次,在那麼重的往返路費的壓力下,還是要多玩一些,於是就開始貪心。 遊玩還是隨性最好。能玩下去就繼續,覺得開始纍想傢人就迴傢。 書描寫各個地方的風土人情是極好的,寫奧斯陸,寫丹麥...
評分說明:之前沒看過Bill Bryson的書,這本《東西莫辯逛歐洲》也隻看瞭第五章“布魯塞爾”和第六章“比利時”。本文在舊文(指齣譯者將第一兩段中的 “Dutch”都譯成瞭“德語”等問題)基礎上進一步比較瞭原文和中譯,提齣幾點淺見。當然,整體來看,這兩篇譯文質量實屬上乘,行文...
評分I learned the fact that Bryson was popular (besides Wikipedia says so) from the library checking status list. I’m so used to that when searching for certain writer, all his works would be neatly listed with the status description of “available at xxx libr...
評分喜歡比爾幽默睿智的文筆。我們所期待的旅行是一路都有行人對你微笑的歡樂迴憶,但即使是在歐洲這樣發達的區域,旅行者仍然時時會碰到傲慢的侍者、魯莽的司機,以及時刻準備偷你錢包纔不管你死活的職業小偷!但是在作者的筆下這些都變得妙趣橫生。 我更喜歡這本書的英文名字 Ne...
圖書標籤: 美國 遊記 歐洲 Bryson
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Neither Here, Nor There 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載