![]() That provides the underlying theme for the book. Nowhere in the world is there a landscape that has been more intensively utilized – more mined, farmed, quarried, covered with cities and clanging factories, threaded with motorways and railway lines – and yet remains so comprehensively and reliably lovely over most of its extent.’ Countryside – ‘Comprehensively and reliably lovely’ ‘Nothing – and I mean, really, absolutely nothing – is more extraordinary in Britain than the beauty of the countryside. ![]() He has chosen to live here, far from his native Iowa, and gives several reasons why, the most important being the countryside: However, to be clear, Bill Bryson is a massive fan of Great Britain. Mostly negatively in his eyes, but of course that is part of the ‘grumpy old man’ syndrome. ![]() Twenty years after the publication of his very popular Notes from a Small Island, Bill has taken another tour around Great Britain to see how it has changed in the intervening period. The book is sub-titled More Notes from a Small Island, and that explains it well. ![]() After reading The Road to Little Dribbling, I realise that Bill Bryson is not just a renowned senior traveller (he is 65 this year), but also a ‘grumpy old man’, albeit a very amusing, grumpy old man. ![]()
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