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Neither Here nor There
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Neither Here nor There (1991) (edit title/settings)

Travels in Europe

by Bill Bryson (Author) (edit contributors)

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Like many of his generation, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe in the early seventies — in search of enlightenment, beer and women. Twenty years later he decided to retrace the journey he undertook in the halcyon days of his youth. The result is Neither Here Nor There, an affectionate and... read more

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  • “...there are certain things that some nations do better than everyone else and certain things that they do far worse, and I began to wonder why that should be.”
  • “...that's the glory of foreign travel... I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.”
  • “There isn't anyplace that's not worth going to.”
  • “...I just hate the way architects, city planners, and everyone else responsible for urban life seem to have lost sight of what cities are for. They are for people. That is obvious enough, but for half a century we have been building cities that are designed for almost anything else: for cars, for businesses, for developers, for people with money and bold visions who refuse to see cities from ground level, as places in which people must live and function and get around. Why should I have to walk through a damp tunnel and negotiate two sets of stairs to get across a busy street? Why should cars be given priority over me? How can we be so rich and so stupid at the same time?”
  • “about cows: They will be your friends forever. And when you get tired of them, you can kill and eat them. Perfect.”
  • “I don't know about you, but if I lived in an age where God was zinging every third person in my town with suppurating bubos, I don't think I'd look on Him as being on my side.”

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IN WINTER, Hammerfest is a thirty-hour ride by bus from Oslo, though why anyone would want to go there in winter is a question worth considering.

Table of Contents edit see section history

1 To the North
2 Hammerfest
3 Oslo
4 Paris
5 Brussels
6 Belgium
7 Aachen and Cologne
8 Amsterdam
9 Hamburg
10 Copenhagen
11 Gothenburg
12 Stockholm
13 Rome
14 Naples, Sorrento and Capri
15 Florence
16 Milan and Como
17 Switzerland
18 Liechtenstein
19 Austria
20 Yugoslavia
21 Sofia
22 Istanbul

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  1. Bill Bryson (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
Country: UK
Publication Date: 1991
ISBN: 978-0436200021
Page Count: 272

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Reading Level: Adults

suitable for teens

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