Map and Line Illustrations Copyright © 2015 Neil Gower The use of any part of this publication, reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system without the prior written consent of the publisher-or in the case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, license from the Canadian Copyright Licensing agency-is an infringement of the copyright law.ĭoubleday Canada and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. The Road to Little Dribbling reaffirms his stature as a master of the travel narrative-and a really, really funny guy.The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kidīryson’s Dictionary for Writers and EditorsĪll rights reserved. Nothing is more entertaining than Bill Bryson on the road-and on a tear. 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. 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.įollowing (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.
The result was Notes from a Small Island, a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. Prepare for total joy and multiple episodes of unseemly laughter. A loving and hilarious-if occasionally spiky-valentine to Bill Bryson’s adopted country, Great Britain.
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