The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island. Signed by the Author. First printing thus

Bryson, Bill

ISBN 10: 0552779830 / ISBN 13: 9780552779838

Published by London. Black Swan Ltd, 2016

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London. Black Swan Ltd. 2016. First printing in this paperback edition. Soft Covers. Standard paperback format. 477 pp. Front wrap illustrated with the 'Jolly Fisherman' by Neil Gower. Spine ends have no wear. Corners sharp and contents clean and unmarked. Map in the prelims. Small black and white illustrations as chapter headpieces. Flat signed by the author without dedication to the title page. Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation's heart and became the bestselling travel book ever, and was also voted in a BBC poll the book that best represents Britain.Now, to mark the twentieth anniversary of that modern classic, Bryson makes a brand-new journey round Britain to see what has changed. The wraps will be covered with a 100 micron inert protective cover which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional photographs. If you are located outside the UK, quoted shipping costs are for a book up to 1kg only. Book(s) above this weight may incur a surcharge. If you are in the UK, quoted price is for books up to 2kg. and are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£2.85). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island. Signed by the Author. First printing thus
• Publisher: London. Black Swan Ltd
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0552779830
• ISBN 13: 9780552779838
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

WINNER: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER READER AWARD FOR BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016
WINNER: BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER AWARD FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY OR BIOGRAPHY 2016

Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation’s heart and became the bestselling travel book ever, and was also voted in a BBC poll the book that best represents Britain.Now, to mark the twentieth anniversary of that modern classic, Bryson makes a brand-new journey round Britain to see what has changed.

Following (but not too closely) a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis to Cape Wrath, by way of places that many people never get to at all, Bryson sets out to rediscover the wondrously beautiful, magnificently eccentric, endearingly unique country that he thought he knew but doesn’t altogether recognize any more. Yet, despite Britain’s occasional failings and more or less eternal bewilderments, Bill Bryson is still pleased to call our rainy island home. And not just because of the cream teas, a noble history, and an extra day off at Christmas.

Once again, with his matchless homing instinct for the funniest and quirkiest, his unerring eye for the idiotic, the endearing, the ridiculous and the scandalous, Bryson gives us an acute and perceptive insight into all that is best and worst about Britain today.

Review

An Amazon Best Book of January 2016: The Road to Little Dribbling comes twenty years after Bill Bryson’s Notes from a Small Island, in which he first described his love affair with his adopted Great Britain. That first book was laugh-out-loud funny, and so is this one. It opens with Bryson describing (hilariously) the perils of growing older, eventually revealing the author’s successful passing of the Life in Britain Knowledge Test (thus, making him a British citizen). The rest of the book follows that pattern: Bryson describes getting older, and he describes Great Britain via a trip he took across the 700 mile long island. While he tried to avoid places he visited in Notes from a Small Island—he does revisit Dover—those who read the first book will enjoy a welcome sense of the familiar—even if Bryson appears to have grown a little more cynical and angry with age. But give the guy a break: the world is changing, even his beloved “cozy and embraceable” island. And as he writes in the book, “I recently realized with dismay that I am even too old for early onset dementia. Any dementia I get will be right on time.” --Chris Schluep