Notes From a Big Country - Softcover

Bryson, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385658591 ISBN 13: 9780385658591

Publisher: Doubleday Canada, Limited, 2002

Synopsis

After nearly two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer returned to live in the country he had left as a youth. Of course there were things Bryson missed about Blighty, but any sense of loss was countered by the joy of rediscovering some of the forgotten treasures of his childhood. So, gathered here, are eighteen months' worth of his popular columns from the Mail on Sunday's Night & Day magazine about the strangest of phenomena - the American way of life.

About this title

About the Author:

Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. He settled in England in 1977, and lived for many years with his English wife and four children in North Yorkshire. He and his family then moved to America for a few years but have now returned to the UK. He is the bestselling author of The Lost Continent, Mother Tongue, Neither Here Nor There, Made in America, Notes From a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods, Notes From a Big Country, Down Under and, most recently, A Short History of Nearly Everything. He is also the author of the bestselling African Diary (a charity book for CARE International).

Review:

"'Bill Bryson's answer to Alistair Cooke's Letter From America...not only hilarious but also insightful and informative'" -- Jeremy Atiyah * Independent on Sunday * "'Delightful bite-size essays that exude affection while debunking the ridiculous with wonderful succinctness...This is not a book to be read in a single sitting. It is one to be savoured'" -- Martin Fletcher * The Times * "'One of his best books'" -- Scott Bradfield * Independent *

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday Canada, Limited
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0385658591
• ISBN 13: 9780385658591
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368