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About the Author
   BILL BRYSON is the author of numerous works of travel literature as well as books on language. In addition to his best-selling books for Broadway, including A Walk in the Woods, Tm a Stranger Here Myself, and In a Sunburned Country, he is the author of Mother Tongue, The Lost Continent, Notes from a Small Island, and Neither Here nor There. He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his wife, Cynthia, and their children.

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