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ALSO BY BILL BRYSON
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Shakespeare: The World as Stage
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
A Short History of Nearly Everything
In a Sunburned Country
I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Notes from a Small Island
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
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Front: The founding signatures.
Back: Recent signatures from 2001 and 2002, including some of the contributors to this book.
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