Notes from a Small Island

Bryson, Bill

ISBN 10: 0385405340 / ISBN 13: 9780385405348

Published by Doubleday Books, 1995

About this Item

Good hardcover in Good only jacket. 1995. SIGNED/Inscribed by AUTHOR on title page. Bumping and moderate edgewear. Binding solid. Jacket with short tear to bottom edge. Creasing and moderate edgewear. Clean/solid. 282 pp.

Seller Inventory # L02714

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Notes from a Small Island
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385405340
• ISBN 13: 9780385405348
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

By the author of "The Lost Continent" and "Neither Here Nor There". Bryson moved to England in 1978 and settled in North Yorkshire. In this book, he turns an affectionate but ironic eye on his adopted country.

Review

Bill Bryson is an unabashed Anglophile who, through a mistake of history, happened to be born and bred in Iowa. Righting that error, he spent 20 years in England before deciding to repatriate: "I had recently read that 3.7 million Americans according to a Gallup poll, believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, so it was clear that my people needed me." That comic tone enlivens this account of Bryson's farewell walking tour of the countryside of "the green and kindly island that had for two decades been my home."