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The Road to Little Dribbling, Adventures of an American in Britain, Bill Bryson

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The Road to Little Dribbling, Adventures of an American in Britain, Bill Bryson

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eng

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Road to Little Dribbling

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934101761

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Bill Bryson

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Adventures of an American in Britain

Summary

"In 1995 Bill Bryson got into his car and took a weeks-long farewell motoring trip about England before moving his family back to the United States. The book about that trip, Notes from a Small Island, is ... [often considered] one of the most acute and affectionate portrayals of England in all its glorious eccentricity ever written. Two decades later, he set out again to rediscover that country, and the result is [this book]"--Amazon.comBryson travels about Britain, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed-- and what hasn't-- since his last trip twenty years ago. 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

Table Of Contents

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)

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Adventures of an American in Britain

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