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A Really Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction
Ever wondered how we got from nothing to something? Or thought about how we can weigh the earth? Or wanted to reach the edge of the universe? Uncover the mysteries of time, space and life on earth in this extraordinary book - a journey from the centre of the planet to the dawn of the dinosaurs, and ever ...Show more
A Really Short Journey Through the Body: An illustrated edition of the bestselling book about our incredible anatomy by Bill Bryson
$44.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction
A funny and fascinating, fully illustrated new edition for children, of the bestselling book about everything inside our body, from legendary author Bill Bryson. 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. Want to know why the ...Show more
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Bryson
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him.A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got ...Show more
A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Bryson Ser.
"In the company of his friend Stephen Katz (last seen in the bestselling Neither Here nor There), Bill Bryson set off to hike the Appalachian Trail, the longest continuous footpath in the world. Ahead lay almost 2,200 miles of remote mountain wilderness filled with bears, moose, bobcats, rattlesnakes, p ...Show more
Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
"It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life u 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 suc ...Show more
Mother Tongue - The English Language by Bill Bryson
$9.95 AUD
$13.99 (28% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson--the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent--brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), t ...Show more
Neither Here Nor There - Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
$19.95 AUD
$27.99 (28% off)
Category: Travel
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 Hamemrfest, the norther ...Show more
Notes From A Big Country: Journey Into the American Dream by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
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 li ...Show more
Notes from A Small Island by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
"In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of ...Show more
Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
$27.99 (10% off)
Category: Travel
From perfectly formed potatoes to adulterous US presidents, and from domestic upsets to millennial fever, Bill Bryson just cannot resist airing his opinions and standing up for his (mostly) law-abiding fellow American citizens. But of course after twenty years in England, he is now back on the other sid ...Show more
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Health
'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 ab ...Show more