Notes from a small island

Bryson, Bill

ISBN 10: 0385405340 / ISBN 13: 9780385405348

Published by London : Transworld Publishers/Doubleday, 1995

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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.

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Synopsis:

Notes from a Small Island [Hardcover] Bryson, Bill

Review:

Reacting to an itch common to Midwesterners since there's been a Midwest from which to escape, writer Bill Bryson moved from Iowa to Britain in 1973. Working for such places as Times of London, among others, he has lived quite happily there ever since. Now Bryson has decided his native country needs him--but first, he's going on a roundabout jaunt on the island he loves.

Britain fascinates Americans: it's familiar, yet alien; the same in some ways, yet so different. Bryson does an excellent job of showing his adopted home to a Yank audience, but you never get the feeling that Bryson is too much of an outsider to know the true nature of the country. Notes from a Small Island strikes a nice balance: the writing is American-silly with a British range of vocabulary. Bryson's marvelous ear is also in evidence: "... I noted the names of the little villages we passed through--Pinhead, West Stuttering, Bakelite, Ham Hocks, Sheepshanks ..." If you're an Anglophile, you'll devour Notes from a Small Island.