This book felt shallow (and kind of mean?) in comparison to Bryson's later works (in particular, In a Sunburned Country, which I just loved). I wish he would have taken the time to focus on a few places and give us a sense of their history (or his history with them), rather than taking us all over t...
After 20 years in England, Bill Bryson decided to tour Britain in 1995 by public transport over ~6 weeks and write a book about it.HUMOURThere are snippets of great humour and insight (“a young man with more on his mind than in it”; “carpet with the sort of pattern you get when you rub your eyes too...
Before returning to his native United States after a sojourn of some twenty years in England, Bryson decided to take a trip around that "small island." The hysterical comments in this book are the result. The British loved it so much it was a best-seller for months, and they turned it into a TV seri...
Bill Bryson does not play the naive tourist gushing about cute little old England, giggling at the 'quaint things Brits do'He has lived in Britain long enough to know what the British find annoying or endearing about their own culture and he examines this with affectionate from the standpoint of som...
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