Notes from a small island

Bryson, Bill

ISBN 10: 0385405340 / ISBN 13: 9780385405348

Published by London : Transworld Publishers/Doubleday, 1995

About this Item

Signed by the author. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 282p. ; 24cm. Subjects: Bryson, Bill -- Journeys -- Great Britain. Travel writing. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 307819

Bibliographic Details

Title: Notes from a small island

Publisher: London : Transworld Publishers/Doubleday

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Hardcover

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition.

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."