Notes from a Small Island

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N Otes FROM A
SMALL ISLAND
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bili Bryson recendy took the decision to move back to the States for a while, to let his kids experience life in another country, to give his wife the chance to shop until 10 p.m. seven nights a week, and, most of all, because he had read that 3.7 millión Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, and it was thus clear to him that his people needed him.
But before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green
and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of the nation's public face and priváté parts (as it were), and to analyse what precisely it was he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite, a military hero whose
dying wish was to be kissed by a fellow named Hardy, place names like Farleigh Wallop, Titsey and
Shellow Bowells, people... Tovább

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N Otes FROM A
SMALL ISLAND
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bili Bryson recendy took the decision to move back to the States for a while, to let his kids experience life in another country, to give his wife the chance to shop until 10 p.m. seven nights a week, and, most of all, because he had read that 3.7 millión Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, and it was thus clear to him that his people needed him.
But before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green
and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of the nation's public face and priváté parts (as it were), and to analyse what precisely it was he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite, a military hero whose
dying wish was to be kissed by a fellow named Hardy, place names like Farleigh Wallop, Titsey and
Shellow Bowells, people who said 'Mustn't grumble', and Gardeners' Question Time.
The Lost Continent, Bili Bryson's savagely funny account of his joumey back to his roots in small-town USA, took Britain by a storm of guffaws in 1989. It was followed by Neither Here Nor There, in
which Bryson applied his unique brand of wry humour to the foibles of Continental Europe and the Europeans. Both books have rarely been absent from the bestseller lists since. Now, in Notes from a Small Island, Bryson tums a laconic but affectionate eye on his adopted country. Britain will never seem the same again. Vissza