![]() ![]() After this trek, he would move back to America.Īs an unofficial Anglophile (my wife says I have an “English sensibility”) I was taken on a very vivid bus and train ride to such quirky-named towns and villages as Chepstow and Studland and Porthmadog. Notes From a Small Island is about Bryson’s seven-week attempt to circumnavigate Great Britain via public transportation, after the Iowa native had already spent more than 20 years living and working there. 89 on our list of greatest travel books ) written nearly 30 years ago – and I’m still hooked! After a long hiatus from reading any of Bryson’s tomes, I just had the pleasure of reading Notes From a Small Island (No. ![]() I’ve since read several other of his travel memoirs, but in chronological order, so I was unfamiliar with his early work. ![]() The first Bill Bryson book I ever read was A Walk In the Woods – his voice and humor, and ability to put himself in Larry David-esque situations, hooked me right away. ![]()
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