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Down Under is the British title of a 2000 travelogue book about Australia written by best-selling travel writer Bill Bryson.In the United States and Canada it was published titled In a Sunburned Country, a title taken from the famous Australian poem, "My Country".
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (US) / Mother Tongue: The English Language (UK) 1 June 1990: Language: Adapted for Journeys in English in 2004 for BBC Radio 4. The Penguin Dictionary for Writers and Editors: 29 August 1991: Language: Republished, in 2009, as Bryson's Dictionary: for Writers and Editors: Neither Here nor There ...
It was Bryson's first travel book. [1] He begins his journey, made almost entirely by car, in his childhood hometown of Des Moines, Iowa, heading from there towards the Mississippi River, often reminiscing about his childhood in Iowa. The journey was made after his father's death, and so is in part a collection of memories of his father in Des ...
The book starts with Bryson explaining his curiosity about the Appalachian Trail near his house. He and his old friend Stephen Katz start hiking the trail from Georgia in the South, and stumble in the beginning with the difficulties of getting used to their equipment; Bryson also soon realizes how difficult it is to travel with his friend, who is a crude, overweight recovering alcoholic, and ...
Bryson covers all corners of the island, observing and talking to people from as far afield as Exeter in the West Country to John o' Groats at the north-eastern tip of Scotland's mainland. During this trip he insisted on using only public transport, but failed on two occasions: in Oxfordshire and on the journey to John o' Groats he had to rent ...
On his 1972 tour, he travelled with his friend Matt Angerer, pseudonymised in the book as Stephen Katz, who also appeared more prominently in Bryson's later book A Walk in the Woods, as well as in The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. [3] Bryson's trip begins in the winter, in Hammerfest, Norway, where his goal is to see the Northern ...
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.. Twenty years after the publication of Notes from a Small Island (1995), Bryson makes another journey around Great Britain to see what has changed.
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