A loving and hilarious—if occasionally spiky—valentine to Bill Bryson's adopted
country, Great Britain. Prepare for total joy and multiple episodes of unseemly
laughter.
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and
celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small
Island, a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now
he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on
foot, to see what has changed—and what hasn't.
Following (but not too closely) a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor
Regis in the south to Cape Wrath