The Road to Little Dribbling
More Notes from a Small Island
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation's heart and became the best-selling travel book ever, and was also voted in a BBC poll the book that best represents Britain.Now, to mark the twentieth anniversary of that modern classic, Bryson makes a brand-new journey around Britain to see what has changed.Following (but not too closely) a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis to Cape Wrath, by way of places that many people never get to at all, Bryson sets ou…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84657-441-2
- EAN: 9781846574412
- Produktnummer: 18704783
- Verlag: Random House Uk Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Gattung: Lesung (Hörbuch)
- Masse: H14.2 cm x B13.4 cm x D2.5 cm 260 g
- Abbildungen: Audio CD (CD/SACD); 10 Audio CD (CD/SACD)
- Gewicht: 260
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Bill Bryson's acclaimed book on the history of science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the Royal Society's Aventis Prize as well as the Descartes Prize, the European Union's highest literary award. His bestselling travel books include The Lost Continent and Notes from a Small Island, which in a national poll was voted the book that best represents Britain. Another travel book, A Walk in the Woods, has become a major film starring Robert Redford, Nick Nolte and Emma Thompson.He has written books on language, on Shakespeare, on history, and on his own childhood in the hilarious memoir The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. His last critically lauded bestsellers were At Home: a Short History of Private Life, One Summer: America 1927 and most recently, The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island.His new book, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, is published in October 2019. An extraordinary exploration of the human body, it will have you marvelling at the form you occupy. Bill Bryson was born in the American Midwest, and now lives in the UK. A former Chancellor of Durham University, he was President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England for five years, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society.
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