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

Product Description

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 Brysonnow a British citizenset out again to rediscover his adopted country. In these pages he follows a straight line through the islandfrom Bognor Regis to Cape Wrathand shows us every pub stone village and human foible along the way.

Whether he is dodging cow attacks in Torcross getting lost in the H&M on Kensington High Street ormore seriouslycontemplating the future of the nations natural wonders in the face of aggressive development Bryson guides us through the old and the new with vivid detail and laugh-out-loud humor. Irreverent endearing and always hilarious The Road to Little Dribbling is filled with Bill Brysons deep knowledge and love of his chosen home.

Amazon.com Review

An Amazon Best Book of January 2016: The Road to Little Dribbling comes twenty years after Bill Bryson??s Notes from a Small Island?? in which he first described his love affair with his adopted Great Britain. That first book was laugh-out-loud funny?? and so is this one. It opens with Bryson describing (h