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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.
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 ...
Blue Highways: A Journey into America (1982) Peter Mayle (born 1939) A Year in Provence (1989) Colin Thubron (born 1939) Mirror to Damascus (1967) In Siberia (1999) Among the Russians (1983) Behind the Wall: A Journey through China (1987) To a Mountain in Tibet (2011) The Amur River: Between Russia and China (2021) Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989)
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 title of Briton Neil Humphreys' book Notes from an Even Smaller Island (written on his experiences in the former Crown Colony of Singapore) is a reference to Bryson's book, Humphreys stating in 2012, "When I read Bill Bryson's travel books, I was inspired to do something similar in Asia (some might say rip him off! Luckily, Bill Bryson ...
Notes from a Big Country, or as it was released in the United States, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, is a collection of articles written by Bill Bryson for The Mail on Sunday's Night and Day supplement during the 1990s, published together first in Britain in 1998 [citation needed] and in paperback in 1999.