Bryson is such a good writer that even if you don’t especially go in for travel books, he makes reading this book worthwhile.įans should expect to chuckle, snort, snigger, grunt, laugh out loud and shake with recognition…a clotted cream and homemade jam scone of a treat.Īt its best as the history of a love affair, the very special relationship between Bryson and Britain. 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. But he retains an outsider’s appreciation for a country that first struck him as "wholly strange.and yet somehow marvelous." Britain is still his home four decades later, a period in which he went from lowly scribe at small-town British papers to best-selling travel writer. He's still apt to seek out the obscure.Īlida Becker - New York Times Book Reviewīryson’s capacity for wonder at the beauty of his adopted homeland seems to have only grown with time. e 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"…Bryson seems merely to have sharpened both his charms and his crotchets….
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