Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain Audiobook
Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain Audiobook
- Bill Bryson
- Transworld Digital
- 2010-04-01
- 5 h 39 min
Summary:
After nearly two decades in Britain, Expenses Bryson took your choice to move back to the Expresses for some time, to let his kids encounter life internationally, to give his wife the opportunity to shop until 10 p.m. seven nights a week, and, most of all, because he had read the 3.7 million People in america believed that that they had been abducted by aliens at onetime or another, and it was thus clear to him that his people needed him.
But before leaving his much-loved house in North Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on about Notes From A LITTLE Island: Journey Through Britain taking one last trip about Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly isle that had so long been his house. His goal was to take stock of the nation’s public face and private parts (since it were), also to analyse what specifically it was he loved a lot about a nation that had created Marmite, a military hero whose dying desire was to become kissed with a fellow called Hardy, place brands like Farleigh Wallop, Titsey and Shellow Bowells, individuals who stated ‘Mustn’t grumble’, and Gardeners’ Question Time.
So in Notes from a little Island, Bryson converts a laconic but affectionate eyes in his adopted nation. Britain won’t seem the same once again.