Neither Here, Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson games the master of hard-boiled crime

the master of hard-boiled crime

and was able to get to the root of people’s lives and to express human emotions with intense skill and originality

superb characters and sheer addictiveness

deep friendship and offbeat escape

Neither Here, Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson games the master of hard-boiled crimeBill Brysons first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia. Fluent in, oh, at least one language, he retraces his travels as a student twenty years