The Road to Little DribblingThe Road to Little Dribbling

A valentine, loving and hilarious, if occasionally spiky, to Great Britain, Bill Bryson's adopted country. Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain, twenty years ago, to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes From A Small Island, a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now Bryson has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed; and what has not. Following (but not too closely) a route he dubs Bryson Line, 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. With his matchless instinct for the funniest and quirkiest and his unerring eye for the idiotic, the bewildering, the appealing, and the ridiculous, he offers acute and perceptive insights into all that is best and worst about Britain today. -- Provided by publisher, taken from cover.