The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain [J0078]

2015 - HCDJ Excellent condition. A loving and hilarious—if occasionally spiky—valentine to Bill Bryson’s adopted country, Great Britain. Prepare for total joy and multiple episodes of unseemly laughter. Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever written. 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. Following (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. 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.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "I quite liked this book. it was relaxing to read about a guy going on long ambles through beautiful countryside."; "Bryson's books are always entertaining, but maybe due to the subject (a walk across England) this one seemed less so than others. But I do have to admire a man his age (74) being very matter-of-fact about walking 10+ miles on many days! Also, I don't recall this from other Bryson books, but in this one he makes some use of a four-letter word that some people find offensive."; "Great travel log. As is usual with Bryson books, I found myself suddenly laughing out loud, and wanting to visit even the worst-sounding places just to assure myself he must be exaggerating, or not."