false 28 27 Reacting to an itch common to Midwesterners since there's been a Midwest from which to escape, writer Bill Bryson moved from Iowa to Britain in 1973. Working for such places as <i>Times</i> of London, among others, he has lived quite happily there ever since. Now Bryson has decided his native country needs him--but first, he's going on a roundabout jaunt on the island he loves. <p> Britain fascinates Americans: it's familiar, yet alien; the same in some ways, yet so different. Bryson does an excellent job of showing his adopted home to a Yank audience, but you never get the feeling that Bryson is too much of an outsider to know the true nature of the country. <i>Notes from a Small Island</i> strikes a nice balance: the writing is American-silly with a British range of vocabulary. Bryson's marvelous ear is also in evidence: "... I noted the names of the little villages we passed through--Pinhead, West Stuttering, Bakelite, Ham Hocks, Sheepshanks ..." If you're an Anglophile, you'll devour <i>Notes from a Small Island</i>. 940892 1995 Notes from a Small Island total:6081|5:1319|4:2498|3:1822|2:370|1:72| 6081 22865 8011 652 4 5 false false Wed Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 29 00:33:16 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 08 11:39:02 -0700 2009
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Narrator: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio, 1999
Length: 6 hours (abridged)

Publisher's Summary
After nearly 2 decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such best sellers as The Mother Tongue, Made in A...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Thu Oct 11 07:03:40 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 11 07:03:57 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 03:17:05 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 13:00:24 -0800 2008
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Last month, I plucked it off the shelf again, ready to look at it anew. While this book was a well-writt...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 18 07:20:01 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 07 15:39:52 -0700 2007 more...]]>