Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood...and exactly why Mr.Yankee Doodle call his befeathered cap "Macaroni."

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Notes from a small island
African diary
A short history of nearly everything
Neither here nor there: travels in europe
The lost continent : travels in small-town america