About the Book: The Road to Little Dribbling
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the
green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book
that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nations heart and
became the bestselling travel book ever, and was also voted in a BBC poll the
book that best represents Britain. Now, to mark the twentieth anniversary of
that modern classic, Bryson makes a brand-new journey round Britain to see what
has changed. Following (but not too closely) a route he dubs the Bryson Line,
from Bognor Regis to