description: Hardly anyone ever leaves Des Moines, Iowa. But Bill Bryson did, and after ten years in England he decided to go home to a foreign country. In an aging Chevrolet Chevette, he drove nearly 14,000 miles through thirty-eight states to compile this hilarious and perceptive state-of-the-nation report on small-town America. From the Deep South to the Wild West, from Elvis' birthplace through to Custer's Last Stand, Bryson visits places he re-named Dullard, Coma, and Doldrum (so the residents don't sue or come after him with baseball bats). But his hopes of finding the American dream end in a nightmare of greed, ignorance and pollution. The Lost Continent is a wickedly witty and savagely funny assessment of a country lost to itself and to him.
language: English
title: The Lost Continent
titlecomplete: The Lost Continent
genres: Audiobook, American, Biography, Memoir, Comedy, The United States Of America, Travelogue, Travel, Humor, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 60336
publisher: BBC Radio