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Travel writer Bill Bryson looks at the language of America and explains the history behind it, including the origins of phrases such as The real McCoy and the G-string; why two humble bicycle repairmen from Ohio succeeded in mastering manned flight when the world's greatest engineers couldn't get a model aircraft off the ground; why the assassination of President Garfield led to the invention of air conditioning; and how a lonesome hamburger stand at the end of Route 66 provided the inspiration for McDonald's.
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- Titul
- Made in America
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Bill Bryson
- Vydavateľ
- Minerva
- Vydavateľ
- 1995
- Väzba
- mäkká
- ISBN10
- 074939739x
- ISBN13
- 9780749397395
- Kategórie
- Etnografia, O literatúre, Svetová história
- Anotácia
- Travel writer Bill Bryson looks at the language of America and explains the history behind it, including the origins of phrases such as The real McCoy and the G-string; why two humble bicycle repairmen from Ohio succeeded in mastering manned flight when the world's greatest engineers couldn't get a model aircraft off the ground; why the assassination of President Garfield led to the invention of air conditioning; and how a lonesome hamburger stand at the end of Route 66 provided the inspiration for McDonald's.