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Bill Bryson is today one of the best known, if not the best known, travel writer (certainly in the UK if not in the USA and elsewhere too). The Lost Continent however was his first full length book, published in 1989 so he was an unknown then. My copy is a relatively early copy of the book, and I like the quote on the front ‘Hilarious… he can be suave, sarcastic and very funny… not your typical travel writer’. The thing is, today he is your typical travel writer, but only bec