| Edition |
First Large print edition. |
| Description |
510 pages (large print) : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Physical Medium |
large print rda |
| Summary |
"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 ... [often considered] 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 [this book]"--Amazon.com. |
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Bryson travels about Britain, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed-- and what hasn't-- since his last trip twenty years ago. From Bognor Regis in the south to Cape Wrath in the north, by way of places few travelers ever get to at all, Bryson rediscovers the wondrously beautiful, magnificently eccentric, endearingly singular country that he both celebrates and, when called for, twits. |
| Contents |
Bugger Bognor! -- Seven sisters -- Dover -- London -- Motopia -- A great park -- Into the forest -- Beside the seaside -- Day trips -- To the West -- Devon -- Cornwall -- Ancient Britain -- East Anglia -- Cambridge -- Oxford and about -- The Midlands -- It's so bracing! -- The Peak District -- Wales -- The North -- Lancashire -- The Lakes -- Yorkshire -- Durham and the Northeast -- To Cape Wrath (and considerably beyond). |
| Subject |
Bryson, Bill -- Travel -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain -- Description and travel.
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Great Britain -- Civilization -- 21st century.
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| Genre/Form |
Large type books.
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| Added Title |
Adventures of an American in Britain |
| ISBN |
9780399566783 (pbk) |
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0399566783 (pbk) |
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