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Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson’s bestselling travel books include The Lost Continent, A Walk in the Woods and Notes from a Small Island, which in a national poll was voted the book that best represents Britain. He has written books on language, on Shakespeare and on his own childhood in the hilarious memoir The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. His last critically lauded bestseller was At Home: a Short History of Private Life.

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Title:: Notes from a Small Island (MP3)
Written by:: Bill Bryson
Read by:: William Roberts
Format:: Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 1
Duration:: 10 hours 31 minutes
MP3 size:: 435 MB
Published:: December 28 2016
Available Date:: December 28 2016
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781489371416
Genres:: Non-fiction; Autobiography; Europe; Lifestyle - Travel
Publisher:: Bolinda/Audible audio

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'Astute and funny ... an amusing guide to the U.K.'s foibles, as well as a tribute to its enchantment.'
New York Times Book Review

With wit and irreverence, Bill Bryson presents the ludicrous and the endearing in equal measure....

After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such best sellers as The Mother Tongue and Made in America, decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson's homeland, and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another. It was thus clear to him that his people needed him. But before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of modern-day Britain, and to analyze what he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite, zebra crossings, and place names like Farleigh Wallop, Titsey, and Shellow Bowells. With wit and irreverence, Bill Bryson presents the ludicrous and the endearing in equal measure. The result is a social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain.