Over twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his home. The hilarious book he wrote about that journey, Notes from a Small Island, became one of the most loved books of recent decades, and was voted in a BBC poll as the book that best represents Britain. Now, for his first travel book in fifteen years, Bryson sets out again, on a long-awaited, brand-new journey around the UK.
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(@doubledaybooks, 8 October 2015, 385 pages, hardback, #popsugarreadingchallenge 2019, a book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter, bought from@BarnardosScot)
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I've read a few of Bryson's book now and always enjoy them. The weird thing is I've seen the movie of A Walk in the Woods where Bryson is played by Robert Redford so every time I read one of Bryson's books I imagine Robert Redford speaking in my head. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Bryson is American but his sense of humour is so British it makes for hilarious reading. I liked the fact Bryson visits a wide range of places in the book spanning the whole of the UK. I was particularly delighted when he visited Cape Wrath in Scotland in the final chapter. Each chapter offers humorous insight into Britain including the difficultly travelling to some parts and the way the landscape has changed over decades.