In his sequel, The Road To Little Dribbling, Bryson - who's American - takes a bounding route through the island nation with the encomiastic zest of a tour guide and the gentle classism of a real Englishman.Īt its best, 'The Road to Little Dribbling' is a funny and pleasant travelogue. You find that you have been speaking, for months, unacceptably loudly.īill Bryson has been chronicling these transatlantic frictions with great wit and flair for decades: In 1995, his Notes From A Small Island explored odd English place names (Chew Magna, Nether Wallop, Helions Bumpstead), the intricacies of aristocratic titles, the wild loveliness of the countryside and the strange English compulsion to put jam on cake. You discover that Britons think America is a kind of large food court in a mall where everyone possesses heavy artillery and an undying interest in the doings of the royal family. The way you prepare your tea, it turns out, indicates your exact level of class and education. It's only after a few months that the strangeness begins to sink in.

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