Authors:  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z  Baggett -> Bennett -> Bouldrey -> Brandt -> Bryson    Bill Bryson In A Sunburned Country Anchor, 2001 (2000) Hardcover, Softcover, Audio, CD, e-Book A must read for voyagers Down Under; of interest to both business travelers touching down on major cities and adventurous explorers heading to remote regions. Insightful and very very funny. (HW)   Bill Bryson Notes From A Big Country Doubleday, 2000 (1998) Hardcover, Softcover, Audio Reprint of British magazine articles (1996-98). Bryson returned to the U.S. after 2 decades in the U.K.. His commentary on the peculiarities of N. American lifestyle are laced with British irony, and cover topics ranging from the survival of the Moose to capital punishment. Well researched, thoughtful and funny. (HW)    Elinor Burkett So Many Enemies, So Little Time: An American Woman in All the Wrong Places HarperCollins, 2004 (2004) Hardcover Fulbright Professor lives and travels in Central Asia, and gains insight into the 'failure of understanding' between cultures. (HW)    John F. Burnett Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions: Travels with an NPR Correspondent Rodale, 2006 (2006) Hardcover A National Public Radio reporter shares eclectic experiences around the world under intriguing categories: Calamities; Hacks and Fixers; and Rogues and Heroes. (HW)   Robert Byron First Russia, Then Tibet Penguin, 1985 (1933) Softcover The author promises neither to instruct or improve his readers as he tells about excursions to Bolshevik Russia in the 1930's and then to its antithesis, Tibet. Yet his observations of both cultures, in comparison with Western values, are fascinating. (HW)