Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Complete Peter Cook
8 best books like Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Complete Peter Cook (Peter Cook): In a Sunburned Country, Illywhacker, Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan, The Moon's a Balloon, Notes from a Small Island, The Way of All Flesh, Monty Python Speaks!, Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings
| Author | Bill Bryson |
| ISBN | 0767903862 |
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER
Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned...
My previous experiences of Carey have been mixed. I really enjoyed True History of the Kelly Gang, but found both Oscar and Lucinda and Parrot and Olivier in America over-long and a little tedious, though both had their moments and were funny at times. When I saw the size of this one and the density of the...
Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan
| Author | Will Ferguson |
| ISBN | 1841952885 |
It had never been done before. Not in 4000 years of Japanese recorded history had anyone followed the Cherry Blossom Front from one end of the country to the other. Nor had anyone hitchhiked the length of Japan. But, heady on sakura and sake, Will Ferguson bet he could do both. The resulting travelogue...
| Author | David Niven |
| ISBN | 0140239243 |
One of the bestselling memoirs of all time, David Niven's The Moon's a Balloon is an account of one of the most remarkable lives Hollywood has ever seen.
Beginning with the tragic early loss of his aristocratic father, then regaling us with tales of school, army and wartime hi-jinx, Niven shows...
Notes from a Small Island
| Author | Bill Bryson |
| ISBN | 0380727501 |
"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it."
After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson - bestselling author of The Mother Tongue and Made in America-decided to return to the United States. ("I had recently...
| Author | Samuel Butler |
| ISBN | 0486434664 |
Written between 1873 and 1884 and published posthumously in 1903, The Way of All Flesh is regarded by some as the first twentieth-century novel. Samuel Butler's autobiographical account of a harsh upbringing and troubled adulthood shines an iconoclastic light on the hypocrisy of a Victorian clerical...
| Author | David Morgan |
| ISBN | 0380804794 |
Broadcast by the BBC between 1969 and 1974, Monty Python’s Flying Circus introduced something completely different: a new brand of surrealistic, stream-of-consciousness comedy that pushed the traditional boundaries of format, style, and content. Blending brilliant satire with slapstick...
Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0618126937 |
Paul Theroux's first collection of essays and articles devoted entirely to travel writing, FRESH AIR FIEND touches down on five continents and floats through most seas in between to deliver a literary adventure of the first order, with the incomparable Paul Theroux as a guide. From the crisp quiet...
