The Road to Little Dribbling : adventures of an American in Britain / Bill Bryson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryson, Bill, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bryson, Bill--Travel--Great Britain.

Bryson, Bill.

Civilization.

Travel.

Great Britain--Description and travel.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Civilization--21st century.

Genre:

Travel writing.

Humor.

Physical Description:

380 pages : map ; 20 cm

Edition:

First Anchor Books edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Anchor Books, [2016]

Summary:

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 straight line through the island-from Bognor Regis to Cape Wrath-and 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, or-more seriously-contemplating the future of the nation's 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 Bryson's deep knowledge and love of his chosen home.

Contents:

Bugger Bognor!

Seven sisters

Dover

London

Motopia

A great park

Into the forest

Beside the seaside

Day trips

To the West

Devon

Cornwall

Ancient Britain

East Anglia

Cambridge

Oxford and about

The Midlands

It's so bracing!

The Peak District

Wales

The North

Lancashire

The Lakes

Yorkshire

Durham and the Northeast

To Cape Wrath (and considerably beyond).

ISBN:

9780804172714

0804172714

OCLC:

943675053