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Travel The Palace Under the Alps and Over 200 Other Unusual, Unspoiled, and Infrequently Visited Spots in 16 European Countries (1985) The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (1989) Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe (1991) Notes from a Small Island (1995) (travels in the United Kingdom, his farewell to the country he was temporarily leaving; adapted for television by Carlton Television in 1998) A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (1998) (co-stars Stephen Katz) Notes from a Big Country (UK) (1998?) / I'm a Stranger Here Myself (US) (1999) (columns about moving back to the USA) Down Under (UK) / In a Sunburned Country (US) (2000) (travels in Australia) Bill Bryson's African Diary (2002) (travels in Africa for CARE International, to whom all royalties and profits were donated) Walk About (2002) (Combined in one volume are Down Under and A Walk in the Woods) Language The Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words (1984) The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way (1990) Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (1994) Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words (2002) Journeys in English (2004) (BBC 4 Radio production, based on The Mother Tongue) Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors (2008) Science A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003) A Really Short History of Nearly Everything (2008) (Children's version of 2003 book) On the Shoulders of Giants (editor - 2009) Memoir The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (2006) Biography Shakespeare: The World as Stage (2007