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The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From a Small Island

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Mad Hatter Bookstore
(Westbank, BC, Canada)

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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. " Bill Bryson returns to his internationally beloved topic, Britain, with his first travel book in fifteen years. In 1995, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his home. The hilarious book he wrote about that journey, Notes from a Small Island, became one of the most loved books of recent decades. Now, in this hotly anticipated new travel book, his first in fifteen years and sure to be greeted as the funniest book of the decade, Bryson sets out on a brand-new journey, on a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis on the south coast to Cape Wrath on the northernmost tip of Scotland. Once again, he will guide us through all that's best and worst about Britain today--while doing that incredibly rare thing of making us laugh out loud in public." Review: "An Amazon Best Book of January 2016: The Road to Little Dribbling comes twenty years after Bill Brysons 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 (hilariously) the perils of growing older, eventually revealing the authors successful passing of the Life in Britain Knowledge Test (thus, making him a British citizen). The rest of the book follows that pattern: Bryson describes getting older, and he describes Great Britain via a trip he took across the 700 mile long island. While he tried to avoid places he visited in Notes from a Small Islandhe does revisit Doverthose who read the first book will enjoy a welcome sense of the familiareven if Bryson appears to have grown a little more cynical and angry with age. But give the guy a break: the world is changing, even his beloved cozy and embraceable island. And as he writes in the book, I recently realized with dismay that I am even too old for early onset dementia. Any dementia I get will be right on time. --Chris Schluep. N° de réf. du vendeur 018086

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