Bryson is such a good writer that even if you don't especially go in for travel books, he makes reading this book worthwhile.' Like its predecessor, The Road to Little Dribbling is a travel memoir, combining adventures and observations from his travels around the island nation with recounting of his life there, off and mostly on, over the last four decades. Bryson's new book is in most ways a worthy successor and sequel to his classic Notes From A Small Island. 'ou could hardly ask for a better guide to Great Britain than Bill Bryson. Alida Becker, The New York Times Book Review

As the title of The Road to Little Dribbling suggests, he remains devoted to Britain's eccentric place names as well as its eccentric pastimes.' 'Although he's now entering what he fondly calls his 'dotage, ' the 64-year-old Bryson seems merely to have sharpened both his charms and his crotchets. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. The Road to Little Dribbling reaffirms his stature as a master of the travel narrative-and a really, really funny guy. Nothing is more entertaining than Bill Bryson on the road-and on a tear. With his matchless instinct for the funniest and quirkiest and his unerring eye for the idiotic, the bewildering, the appealing, and the ridiculous, he offers acute and perceptive insights into all that is best and worst about Britain today. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed-and what hasn't.įollowing (but not too closely) a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis in the south to Cape Wrath in the north, by way of places few travelers ever get to at all, Bryson rediscovers the wondrously beautiful, magnificently eccentric, endearingly singular country that he both celebrates and, when called for, twits.

The result was Notes from a Small Island, a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever written.

Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. Prepare for total joy and multiple episodes of unseemly laughter. A loving and hilarious-if occasionally spiky-valentine to Bill Bryson's adopted country, Great Britain.

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