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Before New York Times bestselling author Bill Bryson wrote The Road to Little Dribbling, he took this delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation of Great Britain, which has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie’s Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey.

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Notes from a Small Island
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From Publishers Weekly
Before his return to the U.S. after a 20-year residence in England, journalist Bryson (Made in America) embarked on a farewell tour of his adopted homeland. His trenchant, witty and detailed observations of life in a variety of towns and villages will delight Anglophiles. Traveling only on public transportation and hiking whenever possible, Bryson wandered along the coast through Bournemouth and neighboring villages that reinforced his image of Britons as a people who rarely complain and are delighted by such small pleasures as a good tea. In Liverpool, the author's favorite English city, he visited the Merseyside Maritime Museum to experience its past as a great port. Interweaving descriptions of landscapes and everyday encounters with shopkeepers, pub customers and fellow travelers, Bryson shares what he loves best about the idiosyncrasies of everyday English life in this immensely entertaining travel memoir. Author tour.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal
Bryson, who hails from Iowa, has spent the last 20 years living in England and writing about the often nettlesome relationship between his two countries, especially regarding their shared language (Made in America, LJ 2/1/95). His latest work is "a kind of valedictory tour around the green and kindly island" before he moved with his family back to the United States. With Paul Theroux's Kingdom by the Sea in hand, Bryson braves the inhospitably soggy fall weather to trudge from Dover, London, coastal villages, Wales, Scotland, and back home to Yorkshire on a helter-skelter seven-week journey that only a reader well versed in the geography of the region will follow, since there are no maps to aid the (American) reader. In fact, Bryson is writing here more for his British fans, who no doubt roar with mirth as he gently pokes fun at their excessive forbearance and fondness for Cagney and Lacey repeats. He is hilarious when transcribing a conversation with unsuspecting locals, especially in Glaswegian pubs, but merely dumb when he indulges in a curious (is it British?) bathroom humor. His portrait is certainly heartfelt, and one wonders, as he chokes up describing a stately, vanishing old England, if he will truly find happiness watching the 67 television channels in his native land. For all travel collections.
Amy Boaz, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The New York Times Book Review, Mordecai Richler
Bryson is surely what J.B. Priestley would have called a good companion, and an observant one, with a bemused eye for the zany. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From AudioFile
What a jolly good read! In this account of the author's farewell tour of England after almost two decades as a "visitor," his wit and wisdom are on copious display, as is some insightful commentary on British attitudes and mores. William Roberts punctuates his reading with excellent accents and characterizations and beautifully captures Bryson's text. Do listen carefully, though; part of Bryson's charm is his wordplay, and that sometimes gets lost in the audio format. Also, there are some, well, spicy words and phrases in the book. These are minor quibbles, and they in no way lessen a wonderful book. R.I.G. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist
After a British sojourn lasting 20 years, this celebrated journalist decided to move back to the U.S.--but not before embarking on a prolonged jaunt around Britain, mainly by way of public transportation. Bryson's entertaining travelogue combines the intimate knowledge of one who has lived among Britons for a sustained period with the refreshing sense of wonder from a first-time visitor. When Bryson engages in chronicling typically British customs and characters, his love of the place is as obvious as his writing is delightfully irreverent. A great success in the U.K., Bryson's remarkably lively view should enchant the U.S. travel audience as well. Alice Joyce --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. His bestselling books include The Road to Little Dribbling, Notes from a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods, One Summer and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. In a national poll, Notes from a Small Island was voted the book that best represents Britain. His acclaimed work of popular science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the Aventis Prize and the Descartes Prize, and was the biggest selling non-fiction book of its decade in the UK. His new book The Body: A Guide for Occupants is an extraordinary exploration of the human body which will have you marvelling at the form you occupy.
Bill Bryson was Chancellor of Durham University 2005–2011. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. He lives in England. --此文字指其他 kindle_edition 版本。

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00T3DR5A8
出版社 ‏ : ‎ William Morrow Paperbacks (2015年6月2日)
出版日期 ‏ : ‎ 2015年6月2日
语言 ‏ : ‎ 英语
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Surprisingly dull and grouchy

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I always look forward to reading Bryson's travelogs: he mixes his adventures with historical, social, and scientific vignettes that help deepen my understanding of a place. This technique is noticeably absent in this work. For instance, he notes two famous graves- George Orwell and Prime Minister Asquith, and comments on the terseness of the gravestone epitaphs, then blithely moves on, without giving any context to why two world figures are buried in an obscure small-town cemetery. In the same chapter, he waxes insulting over a town's potato marketing building and imagines what depressing lives its staff must lead, and ends the paragraph saying it "doesn't bear thinking about." Why even include the story if he's not going to think about it? Elsewhere he bitches about several towns' architecture, but makes no effort at all to describe the importance or impact of changing town scapes, or even why they changed. He focuses instead almost entirely on the state of his legs after walking miles, whether he finds a view satisfactory, and the ineptitude of hotel staff. And inexplicably, he goes off on a vitriolic fat-shaming rant about fellow diners, and spends a couple pages on a sexist aside about how women behave in checkout lines.
I'm baffled by what seems to be a completely out-of-character shift toward negativity and narrow-minded commentary from a normally insightful, joyful writer. This book is a disappointment, and I'm sorry to have spent money on it.

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Rebecca L. Latson

Hilarious Read But Sometimes A Little Mean-Spirited

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Actually, a previous reviewer sums up this book and author quite nicely - Mr. Bryson is much better with places than with people. That being said, I must say I have never laughed so hard while reading a book as I have with this particular publication; good thing I read it at home and not someplace public as people would have been giving me funny looks.

I am going to be traveling to the UK soon and thought it would be nice to read someone else's thoughts and views about the country. So I logged onto Amazon and picked up this book, in which Mr. Bryson (an American who lived in Great Britain for 2 decades) details his travels via train, bus, and on foot through various portions of the country.

I appreciated the author's candidly hilarious experiences, thoughts and views, and almost poetic (well, sometimes more like a limerick than a poem - ahem) descriptions of the countryside, towns, buildings, and people. The only time I take issue with this book is during a few of his less-than-happy encounters with some of those people described, where Mr. Bryson occasionally comes off as being rather rude (ok, sometimes it felt justifiable - to me - as when he was up against an older couple who used him as their whipping post regarding their recent trip to the US). But I took issue with his treatment of a poor young man working at a McDonalds in Scotland who was simply doing his job and didn't deserve the fractious diatribe to which Mr. Bryson subjected this kid. Granted, the author was suffering an apparently large hangover, but even I wouldn't be so rude(well, I don't *think* I would, and I've had my own share of hangovers). Perhaps it's also because I used to work in the service industry and have myself dealt with less-than-cheerful customers who tended to blame the order-taker for a variety of ills.

Nevertheless, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and do recommend it to anybody interested in reading about the beauty, vagaries (funny as well as sad), and small histories of a country as seen through the eyes and experiences of a non-Brit who loves this country whole-heartedly.

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Richard C. Reynolds

Amusing and Informative

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Bill Bryson takes a sentimental journey around Great Britain in the early 1990s and revisits many places he saw in 1973. Various towns, villages and major cities are on his itinerary throughout England, Wales and Scotland. He describes the people, their habits, manners and speech, and makes incisive and often humorous observations about the architecture of the major office and apartment buildings.
He discusses the London Underground Maps displayed on the walls of stations and how they portray only relative locations instead of actual distances. He gives an example of how someone can take an extensive journey through many different places and wind up in almost the same spot.
Bryson comments on the the English and how they queue up in patient and orderly ways for long lines at sporting events such as rugby or tennis at Wimbledon. He also visits Stonehenge and marvels at the efforts that must have been marshaled to gather some 600 citizens and drag a fifty-ton stone across eighteen miles of countryside. Once at the Waterloo station, he learns that his train has been delayed because of a fire at another station. He sees a man with a long red beard, waiting patiently for the tracks to be cleared. Bryson asks the gentleman if he’s been waiting long and the fellow answers, “I was clean shaven when I arrived here.”
Towards the end of the book, he reports an encounter with a young worker at a McDonald’s restaurant in Edinburgh. The fellow asks Bryson if he wants an apple turnover with his Egg McMuffin and our author gets all huffy about it, saying that if he wanted one he’d ask for it. Must have been out of sorts on that day.
If you’ve ever been to England or Scotland, it’s worth the price of this book to take an armchair visit once again and see it through the eyes of a talented traveler.

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Matthew M

Bryson's Amazing and Fun

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This author's books are so jam packed full of info, anecdotes, and history, strung together in an eminently enjoyable read that you don't want to miss his works! I suggest starting out with "A Short History of Nearly Everything". Next should be "At Home", a wonderful expose on why we have the rooms we have in our homes and many, many other things. Third, don't miss "The Body: A Guide For Occupants"!! This is an amazing exploration into all that we are! His other books on being an American in Britain and then a Britain repatriated in America are really funny! Don't miss this author's books!

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