Bill Bryson’s ‘The Road to Little Dribbling’ Twenty years after Notes From a.

Both of these are iconic images of British sea-side culture and landscape, although geographically distant from one another. Bryson talks about The Road to Little Dribbling and Molly Young discusses new books about productivity. One of the things that happens when you get older is that you discover lots of new ways to hurt yourself. cover depicts The Jolly Fisherman of Skegness, skipping with the Seven Sisters in the background. The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson I. He dubs this the 'Bryson Line' and uses it as a rough basis for the route he travels in the book, concentrating mainly on places that he did not visit in Notes from a Small Island. In the opening chapters he notes that the straight line distance from Bognor Regis on the south coast to Cape Wrath in Scotland is the longest straight line one can travel in the UK without crossing any part of the sea. Twenty years after the publication of Notes From a Small Island, Bryson makes another journey around Great Britain to see what has changed. Bryson is such a good writer that even if you don’t especially go in for travel books, he makes reading this. The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From a Small Island is a humorous travel book by American author Bill Bryson, first published in 2015. Like its predecessor, The Road to Little Dribbling is a travel memoir, combining adventures and observations from his travels around the island nation with recounting of his life there, off and mostly on, over the last four decades.

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