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.
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.
看了评论和前言,本来对这书的期望很高。但如果你去过欧洲,还请你远离这本书。作者写作的背景是九十年代的欧洲,即便如此退让,作者写的东西依旧一无是处,完全像是劝解别人别出门了,或者给那些从未出过远门的人的一些安慰。反正下次看见这位作者的东西,我一定绕道。
评分不知道有多少人有自助游欧洲的梦想。 对于离欧洲太远的人,比如我,就觉得如果去了一次,在那么重的往返路费的压力下,还是要多玩一些,于是就开始贪心。 游玩还是随性最好。能玩下去就继续,觉得开始累想家人就回家。 书描写各个地方的风土人情是极好的,写奥斯陆,写丹麦...
评分If you have a sense of humor, I bet you'll love this book. I bought it from Chaterhouse Booktraders in Shanghai, and finished it during the New Year holidays. He started this European trip from the northern-most city of Hammerfest, and finished at Istanbul...
评分If you have a sense of humor, I bet you'll love this book. I bought it from Chaterhouse Booktraders in Shanghai, and finished it during the New Year holidays. He started this European trip from the northern-most city of Hammerfest, and finished at Istanbul...
评分喜欢比尔幽默睿智的文笔。我们所期待的旅行是一路都有行人对你微笑的欢乐回忆,但即使是在欧洲这样发达的区域,旅行者仍然时时会碰到傲慢的侍者、鲁莽的司机,以及时刻准备偷你钱包才不管你死活的职业小偷!但是在作者的笔下这些都变得妙趣横生。 我更喜欢这本书的英文名字 Ne...
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