(i) The author said this. (ii) Here, ‘him’ refers to the bear and ‘her’ refers to the author’s wife. (iii) The incident referred to here is the author's encounter with the baby bear and gifting it to ...

The examples Bill Bryson gave to justify his statement that he was easily confused are that many times he went looking for the lavatory in a cinema but ended up standing in an alley on the wrong side ...