Staff Pick
Humorist Bill Bryson is at his best when commenting on the minutiae of life. In The Road to Little Dribbling, he meanders and rants his way through the wayside villages of Great Britain. Armchair traveling through Bryson’s travelogues is always a fun romp. Recommended By Tracey T., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
The hilarious and loving sequel to a hilarious and loving classic of travel writing: Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson’s valentine to his adopted country of England
In 1995 Bill Bryson got into his car and took a weeks-long farewell
motoring trip about England before moving his family back to the United
States. The book about that trip, Notes from a Small Island, is
uproarious and endlessly endearing, one of the most acute and
affectionate portrayals of England in all its glorious eccentricity ever
written. Two decades later, he set out again to rediscover that
country, and the result is The Road to Little Dribbling. Nothing is funnier than Bill Bryson on the road — prepare for the total joy and multiple episodes of unseemly laughter.
Review
“At its best as the history of a love affair, the very special
relationship between Bryson and Britain. We remain lucky to have him.” Matthew Engel, Financial Times
Review
“Such a pleasure to once again travel the lanes and walking paths of
Britain in the company of Bill Bryson! He’s a little older now, and not
necessarily wiser, but he’s as delightful and irascible a guide as
anyone could ever wish to have, as he rediscovers this somewhat careworn
land and finds it as endearing (mostly) as ever. It’s a rare book that
will make me laugh out loud. This one did, over and over.” Erik Larson, author of Dead Wake and The Devil in the White City
Review
"Writing 20 years after his bestselling Notes from a Small Island,
Bryson concocts another trip through his homeland of 40 years
bydetermining the longest distance one could travel in Britain in a
straight line....There are no better views, finer hikes, more glorious castles, or
statelier grounds than the ones he finds, and Bryson takes readers on a
lark of a walk across this small island with megamagnetism.” Booklist, starred review
About the Author
Bill Bryson’s bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods, Notes from a Small Island, I’m a Stranger Here Myself, In a Sunburned Country, A Short History of Nearly Everything (which earned him the 2004 Aventis Prize), The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, At Home, and One Summer. He lives in England with his wife.