In Made in America, Bill Bryson de-mythologizes his native land--explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, why Americans say...

After ten years in England, expatriate American Bill Bryson was gripped by an urge to return to the land of his youth. Borrowing his mother's old Chevrolet, Bryson travelled 13,978 miles through...

Two degrees west is the line of longitude that runs through the heart of England from the North Sea to the English Channel and is the only line of longitude shown on the maps of the Ordnance...

The third and most ambitious of Michael Palin’s adventures is a voyage of epic proportions—the circumnavigation of the Pacific Rim. He travels for almost a year through the eighteen countries...