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by Bill Bryson


  9.1 “Over London by Rail,” engraving by Gustave Doré from London: A Pilgrimage by Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold, 1872.

  10.1 Eiffel Tower under construction at 110 meters high, Paris, 1888: Topfoto/Roger-Viollet.

  11.1 Patent for the “Little Nipper” mousetrap invented by James Henry Atkinson, filed June 27, 1899, and published as GB 13277/1899: courtesy British Library.

  12.1 The Rake’s Levee, plate II from “A Rake’s Progress” by William Hogarth, 1735: © Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy.

  13.1 Sketch of the Villa Rotonda, Vicenza, by Sir Charles Barry, 1820: RIBA Library Drawings Collection; and nineteenth-century engraving of Monticello, Virginia.

  14.1 “Perspective of a staircase” from A Compleat Treatise on Perspective by Thomas Malton, 1779: RIBA Library Photographs Collection.

  15.1 “Four-Pointed Urethral Ring” from On the Pathology and Treatment of Spermatorrhoea by John Laws Milton, 1887: Wellcome Library, London.

  16.1 Construction of the great sewage tunnels near Old Ford, Bow, 1859–65, wood engraving: Wellcome Library, London.

  17.1 Miss Prattle Consulting Doctor Double Fee About Her Pantheon Head Dress, 1772, anonymous mezzotint: Wellcome Library, London.

  18.1 Woman giving birth, anonymous wood engraving, 1711: Wellcome Library, London.

  19.1 John Lubbock, first Baron Avebury, cartoon by Edward Linley Sambourne, Punch, August 19, 1882.

  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR •

  Bill Bryson’s books include A Walk in the Woods, I’m a Stranger Here Myself, In a Sunburned Country, Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words, A Short History of Nearly Everything (which earned him the 2004 Aventis Prize), The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and Bryson’s Dictionary for Writers and Editors. Bryson lives in England with his wife and children.

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