That is to say, it was the most enjoyable travel book I have read. If Gore Vidal and Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, conspired to write a travelogue, I would expect it to be just as entertaining as The Road to Little Dribbling. Bryson, being a superb writer, isn’t shackled by such a filter. Many of us are aware of “the filter”: that moment when you have a thought that you wouldn’t dream of saying aloud, much less writing down to be recorded for all eternity. It decidedly is.Īllow me to give warning to all of you polite, well-mannered southerners who may pick up this book without having been previously exposed to Mr. Twenty years after his wildly popular travel book about Britain, Notes from a Small Island, Bryson has taken a similar route to determine if “Old Blighty” is still to his liking. Bill Bryson is back with another witty tale of his walks, hikes, drives and rides through the United Kingdom.
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