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  • Adventures of an American in Britain
  • Written by: Bill Bryson
  • Narrated by: Nathan Osgood
  • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (39 ratings)

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The Road to Little Dribbling

Written by: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Nathan Osgood
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Publisher's Summary

A loving and hilarious—if occasionally spiky—valentine to Bill Bryson’s adopted country, Great Britain. Prepare for total joy and multiple episodes of unseemly laughter.

Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain 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 he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed—and what hasn’t.

Following (but not too closely) a route he dubs the 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.

Nothing is more entertaining than Bill Bryson on the road—and on a tear. The Road to Little Dribbling reaffirms his stature as a master of the travel narrative—and a really, really funny guy.

©2016 Bill Bryson (P)2016 Random House Audio
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"Although he's now entering what he fondly calls his 'dotage,' the 64-year-old Bryson seems merely to have sharpened both his charms and his crotchets. As the title of The Road to Little Dribbling suggests, he remains devoted to Britain's eccentric place names as well as its eccentric pastimes." —Alida Becker, The New York Times Book Review

"[Y]ou could hardly ask for a better guide to Great Britain than Bill Bryson.  Bryson’s new book is in most ways a worthy successor and sequel to his classic Notes From A Small Island. Like its predecessor, The Road to Little Dribbling is a travel memoir, combining adventures and observations from his travels around the island nation with recounting of his life there, off and mostly on, over the last four decades.  Bryson is such a good writer that even if you don’t especially go in for travel books, he makes reading this book worthwhile."—Nancy Klingener, Miami Herald

"...Bryson’s capacity for wonder at the beauty of his adopted homeland seems to have only grown with time.... Britain is still his home four decades later, a period in which he went from lowly scribe at small-town British papers to best-selling travel writer. But he retains an outsider’s appreciation for a country that first struck him as 'wholly strange ... and yet somehow marvelous.”—Griff Witte, Washington Post

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Not His best work

Another one but not his best one and I have read all of his books I was disappointed in this one

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A must read!!

Love this book!!
Witty, fun,
Descriptive
Clever
Can’t wait to read another of Bills books!!

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Underline the Bryson Line

Excellent production of an excellent book. A word to the narrator, though. Bude is pronounced "bwude" and not "Bood". That is all.

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Fantastic book

I have read this book many times and love it even more each time. Bill Bryson has picked some great narrators for his work and I'm a loyal fan till the end of time. Everyone of his books is entertaining...even the dry ones (1927) so give him a try is my recommendation.

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Bill Bryson never fails to deliver!

writing a review appears not to be optional after all. here are my fifteen words.

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Bryson does it again

I just love Bryson's work. This book is no exception. This book capture my attention with Bryson's wonderful ability to take his readers along with him as he travels through Britain. I found myself laughing at some of Bryson's embarrassing experiences and his sarcastic wit. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who love Britain! #Audible1

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