The Road to Little Dribbling

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p BILL BRYSON (Des Moines, Iowa, en 1951). Inició la carrera de Periodismo en Estados Unidos, pero la interrumpió para viajar por Europa. En 1977 se instaló en North Yorkshire, Inglaterra, donde residió dos décadas y trabajó en periódicos como x{0026}lt;i The Timesx{0026}lt;/i o x{0026}lt;i The Independentx{0026}lt;/i . Aunque también se ha dedicado a la enseñanza (llegó a ser rector de la Universidad de Durham), actualmente se dedica sobre todo a escribir. Además de x{0026}lt;i El cuerpo humanox{0026}lt;/i es autor de, entre otros libros superventas, x{0026}lt;i Una breve historia de casi todox{0026}lt;/i (Premio Aventis de libros de ciencia y finalista del Premio Samuel Johnson); x{0026}lt;i Un paseo por el bosquex{0026}lt;/i , x{0026}lt;i En casa: una breve historia de la vida privadax{0026}lt;/i ; x{0026}lt;i En las antípodasx{0026}lt;/i ; x{0026}lt;i Aventuras y desventuras del Chico Centellax{0026}lt;/i ; x{0026}lt;i 1927: un verano que cambió el mundox{0026}lt;/i y x{0026}lt;i Shakespearex{0026}lt;/i , todos publicados por RBA.x{0026}lt;/p