Bill Bryson: ONE SUMMER [2014] paperback ARTCR In the Wake of the

In the Wake of the Gods is a cruising companion to be read and enjoyed in its own right

The Gene provides us with a definitive account of the epic history of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans - and paints a fascinating vision of both humanity's past and future

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Bill Bryson: ONE SUMMER [2014] paperback ARTCR In the Wake of theIn summer 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became the most famous man on earth. It was the summer that saw the birth of talking pictures, the invention of television, the peak of Al Capone's reign of terror, the horrifying bombing of a school in