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

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.

Record details

ISBN: 0804172714
ISBN: 9780804172714
Physical Description: 380 pages : map ; 20 cm
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Edition: First Anchor Books edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Anchor Books, [2016]
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

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).