The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
In 1995, Iowa native Bill Bryson took a motoring trip around Britain to explore that green and pleasant land. The uproarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, is one of the most acute portrayals of the United Kingdom ever written. Two decades later, Bryson now a British citizen set...
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In 1995, Iowa native Bill Bryson took a motoring trip around Britain to explore that green and pleasant land. The uproarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, is one of the most acute portrayals of the United Kingdom ever written. Two decades later, Bryson now a British citizen set out again to rediscover his adopted country. In these pages, he follows a strai
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780804172714 (0804172714)
ASIN: 804172714
Publisher: Anchor Books
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
This could not catch my interest. It seemed kind of amusing, but my mind kept wandering. I’m not sure if this is just not a good book for the audio format or if I’m just not in the mood. Or maybe because it’s a sequel and I haven’t read the first book. I gave it my minimum 20 minutes of audio time b...
After several popular science books Bill Bryson is back with another travel book: Once again he travels around the UK. He did so the first time in Notes from a Small Island more than 20 years ago. This times his plan is to travel from the very South to the very North, only visiting places he didn't ...
The Road to Little Dribbling, Bill Bryson, author; Nathan Osgood, narrator In this delightful “travelogue”, Bill Bryson retraces a trip he took around his beloved England two decades ago. As he travels through villages and up and down roads with names most readers have never heard of, to visit some ...
A sequel to his great book, Notes from a Small Island, Bryson undertakes another journey across England, twenty years after his first. Entertaining, descriptive, witty. A fun little volume, packed with all kinds of observations from a quirky, offbeat man. Not his best effort, at least compared to...
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