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In 1995, Iowa local Invoice Bryson took a motoring commute round Britain to discover that inexperienced and delightful land. The uproarious ebook that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, is likely one of the so much acute portrayals of the UK ever written. Twenty years later, Bryson—now a British citizen—set out once more to rediscover his followed united states. In those pages, he follows a immediately line in the course of the island—from Bognor Regis to Cape Wrath—and presentations us each pub, stone village, and human foible alongside the way in which.

Whether or not he’s dodging cow assaults in Torcross, getting misplaced within the H&M on Kensington Top Boulevard, or—extra significantly—considering the way forward for the country’s herbal wonders within the face of competitive construction, Bryson publications us in the course of the vintage and the brand new with bright element and snigger-out-loud humor. Irreverent, endearing, and at all times hilarious, The Street to Little Dribbling is stuffed with Invoice Bryson’s deep wisdom and love of his selected house.