The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson #literature The Ghost Ship is a

The Ghost Ship is a tale of adventure and buccaneering

His attitude stinks

seeing it anew

Harper CollinsISBN: 9780008555870Extent: 496 pages

Two freedom riders take a bus that leaves them stranded on a lonely road in Alabama

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson #literature The Ghost Ship is a'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldnt hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of trim and sunny place where the films of his youth were set. Instead, his search led him to Anywhere, USA; a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels