Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe - Softcover

Bryson, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552998060 ISBN 13: 9780552998062

Publisher: Transworld Pub, 1998

Synopsis

In "Neither Here nor There" Bill Bryson 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 20 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, window-shopping in the sex shops of the Reeperbahn or disputing his hotel bill in Copenhagen, Bryson takes in the sights, dissects the culture and illuminates each place and person with his hilariously caustic observations. He even goes to Liechtenstein.

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From the Inside Flap:

Bryson brings his unique brand of humour to travel writing as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet and heads for Europe.  Travelling with Stephen Katz--also his wonderful sidekick in A Walk in the Woods--he wanders from Hammerfest in the far north, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia.  As he makes his way round this incredibly varied continent, he retraces his travels as a student twenty years before with caustic hilarity.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

From the Back Cover:

“Bryson is first and foremost a storyteller – and a supremely comic and original one at that.” – Winnipeg Free Press

About this edition

• Publisher: Transworld Pub
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0552998060
• ISBN 13: 9780552998062
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304