: A History of Private Life.
This man is accompanied by Trevor Ray Hart on a trip aboard the Indian Pacific railway that is related in a book whose third section opens with Allan Sherwin offering this man all his urine for a journey across the Outback. Another of this man's books opens with a shopping expedition guided by Dave Mengle and contains a passage in which his worries about an encroaching bear are mocked by his companion, the pseudonymous Stephen Katz. A tour of a rectory in Norfolk inspires a series of historical digressions in his At Home: A History of Private Life. This author of Down Under wrote about hiking the Appalachian Trail in A Walk in the Woods. For 10 points, name this humorist and travel writer who wrote about Great Britain in Notes from a Small Island and penned A Short History of Nearly Everything.
This man is accompanied by Trevor Ray Hart on a trip aboard the Indian Pacific railway that is related in a book whose third section opens with Allan Sherwin offering this man all his urine for a journey across the Outback.
Bill Bryson [or William McGuire Bryson]