Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was
unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books for 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, 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 the
hilariously caustic observations. He even goes to
Liechtenstein.
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