The Lost Continent

Travels In Small Town America

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The Lost Continent

Auteur(s): Bill Bryson

Narrateur(s): William Roberts

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Hardly anyone ever leaves Des Moines, Iowa. But Bill Bryson did, and after 10 years in England he decided to go home, to a foreign country.

In an ageing Chevrolet Chevette, he drove nearly 14,000 miles through 38 states to compile this hilarious and perceptive state-of-the-nation report on small-town America.

From the Deep South to the Wild West, from Elvis' birthplace through to Custer's Last Stand, Bryson visits places he re-named Dullard, Coma, and Doldrum (so the residents don't sue or come after him with baseball bats). But his hopes of finding the American dream end in a nightmare of greed, ignorance, and pollution. This is a wickedly witty and savagely funny assessment of a country lost to itself, and to him.

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This book purports to tell of two road trips made throughout the USA by the author in the late 1980’s that, combined, touched 38 states and covered some 14 000 miles. The style is personal and witty but certainly antedates the political correctness to which today’s public is accustomed. Indeed, the author is very critical of most places seen and, it must be added, of his own family and of himself. Though this approach is certainly intended to be amusing, many may perceive it over time to become tiresome.

There are three fundamental flaws:

• Oftentimes, the circuit followed seems to be improvised on the way; contrary to what is claimed, tourist spots are not avoided as, among many others, Williamsburg, Mount Vernon, the Lincoln Memorial and Cooperstown are visited; perhaps because notetaking was not perfectly rigorous, there are holes in the narrative: for instance, the 5-hour bus trip to New York City from Pennsylvania where the car is left is described in detail but not the return.
• The context is now dated: the trip was made before smart phones existed, which means that the author frequently gets lost and that he often discovers that a given tourist site is closed for the day or overly expensive; the general observations that are made are no doubt partly obsolete as well.
• The author is always on the go and clearly exhausted with driving at many points. He does not seem to realize that the places most enjoyed on a trip are those where the most time is spent (and not necessarily the reverse).

Overall, this work will be of interest mainly for those interested in urban development and how its quality regressed in America between the author’s childhood in the 1950’s and his trip thirty years later.