Subject: Re: [Homestead] Fine book by Richard Dawkins, University of Oxford biologist
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:47:16 -0800 (PST)
> At 11/29/2004, Gene GeRue wrote:
> >>a short history of nearly everything" by Bill Bryson.
> >
> >I've been meaning to buy that book. Although I should probably be miffed
> >because Bryson declined to write a blurb for my book. My editor thought he
> >would be good, as he had some success with A Walk in the Woods. What do
> >editors know?
>
> He has several books out and appears to be back in England. I do like his
> writting but not his attitude sometimes. He is from DesMoines Iowa but in
> some of his wittings tends to look down on us provincials..
>
> Don Bowen
> Awl Knotted Up Woodworking
> Valley Center, CA http://www.braingarage.com