Notes from a Big Country
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Black Swan
Published: September 16, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780552997867
Subjects: Travel writing; USA; Travel
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 10; title: Introduction
pagenum: 11; title: Coming Home
pagenum: 15; title: Help!
pagenum: 19; title: Well, Doctor, I Was Just Trying to Lie Down
pagenum: 23; title: Take Me Out to the Ball Park
pagenum: 27; title: Dumb and Dumber
pagenum: 32; title: Drug Culture
pagenum: 37; title: Mail Call
pagenum: 41; title: How to Have Fun at Home
pagenum: 46; title: Design Flaws
pagenum: 50; title: Wide-Open Spaces
pagenum: 54; title: Rule Number 1: Follow All Rules
pagenum: 59; title: The Mysteries of Christmas
pagenum: 64; title: The Numbers Game
pagenum: 69; title: Room Service
pagenum: 74; title: Our Friend the Moose
pagenum: 79; title: Consuming Pleasures
pagenum: 84; title: Junk Food Heaven
pagenum: 89; title: Tales of the North Woods
pagenum: 94; title: Hail to the Chief
pagenum: 99; title: Life in a Cold Climate
pagenum: 104; title: Drowning in Red Tape
pagenum: 109; title: The Wasteland
pagenum: 114; title: Commercials, Commercials, Commercials
pagenum: 119; title: Friendly People
pagenum: 124; title: On the Hotline
pagenum: 129; title: Those Boring Foreigners
pagenum: 134; title: The Cupholder Revolution
pagenum: 139; title: Your Tax Form Explained
pagenum: 144; title: Warning: Anyone Having Fun Will Be Reported
pagenum: 149; title: The States Explained
pagenum: 154; title: The War on Drugs
pagenum: 159; title: Why No One Walks
pagenum: 164; title: Gardening with My Wife
pagenum: 169; title: Why Everyone Is Worried
pagenum: 174; title: A Failure to Communicate
pagenum: 179; title: Lost at the Movies
pagenum: 184; title: The Risk Factor
pagenum: 189; title: Ah, Summer!
pagenum: 194; title: Help for the Nondesignated Individual
pagenum: 199; title: Where Scotland Is, and Other Useful Tips
pagenum: 204; title: Dying Accents
pagenum: 209; title: Inefficiency Report
pagenum: 214; title: A Day at the Seaside
pagenum: 219; title: Splendid Irrelevancies
pagenum: 224; title: On Losing a Son
pagenum: 229; title: Highway Diversions
pagenum: 234; title: Snoopers at Work
pagenum: 239; title: How to Hire a Car
pagenum: 244; title: Fall in New England
pagenum: 249; title: A Slight Inconvenience
pagenum: 254; title: So Sue Me
pagenum: 259; title: The Great Indoors
pagenum: 264; title: A Visit to the Barbershop
pagenum: 269; title: Book Tours
pagenum: 274; title: Death Watch
pagenum: 279; title: The Best American Holiday
pagenum: 284; title: Deck the Halls
pagenum: 289; title: The Waste Generation
pagenum: 294; title: Shopping Madness
pagenum: 299; title: Of Missing Planes and Missing Fingers
pagenum: 304; title: Your New Computer
pagenum: 309; title: In Praise of Diners
pagenum: 315; title: Uniformly Awful
pagenum: 320; title: The Fat of the Land
pagenum: 325; title: The Sporting Life
pagenum: 330; title: Last Night on the Titanic
pagenum: 335; title: Fun in the Snow
pagenum: 340; title: The Flying Nightmare
pagenum: 345; title: Lost in Cyber Land
pagenum: 350; title: Hotel California
pagenum: 355; title: Enough Already
pagenum: 360; title: Stupidity News
pagenum: 365; title: Spinning the Truth
pagenum: 370; title: For Your Convenience
pagenum: 375; title: Old News
pagenum: 380; title: Sense of Humour Failure
pagenum: 385; title: The Accidental Tourist
pagenum: 390; title: What Makes an Englishman
pagenum: 395