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Notes from a Small Island

Notes from a Small Island

by Bill Bryson
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 29/04/1999

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After nearly two decades on British soil, the author takes a final jaunt through the heartland of the United Kingdom. As he travels by foot, train & bus, he encounters quirky age-old customs, charming architecture & salt-of-the-earth inhabitants
ISBN:
9780788737206
9780788737206
Category:
Travel & holiday
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
29-04-1999
Language:
English
Publisher:
Recorded Books, Inc.
Country of origin:
United States
Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson's bestselling travel books include The Lost Continent and Notes from a Small Island, which in a national poll was voted the book that best represents Britain. Another travel book, A Walk in the Woods, has become a major film starring Robert Redford, Nick Nolte and Emma Thompson. His new number one Sunday Times bestseller is The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island.

His acclaimed book on the history of science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the Royal Society's Aventis Prize as well as the Descartes Prize, the European Union's highest literary award. He has written books on language, on Shakespeare, on history, and on his own childhood in the hilarious memoir The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. His last critically lauded bestsellers were At Home: a Short History of Private Life, and One Summer: America 1927

Bill Bryson was born in the American Midwest, and now lives in the UK. A former Chancellor of Durham University, he was President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England for five years, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society.

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