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Notities van een klein eiland Reeks

Deze serie onderzoekt op humoristische en scherpzinnige wijze de culturele eigenaardigheden, eigenzinnige inwoners en pittoreske landschappen van een eilandnatie. De auteur vangt het dagelijks leven, vreemde tradities en amusante situaties met humor en persoonlijke observatie. Het biedt een uniek perspectief op het land door de ogen van een buitenstaander die de kleine details opmerkt. Deze boeken zijn perfect voor lezers die geestige inzichten en authentieke reiservaringen waarderen.

The Road to Little Dribbling
Notes from a Small Island

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  1. Notes from a Small Island

    • 415bladzijden
    • 15 uur lezen

    After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson 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 million 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 private parts (as it were), and to analyse what precisely it was he loved so much about a country that 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 -- Back cover

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  2. The Road to Little Dribbling

    • 400bladzijden
    • 14 uur lezen

    In 1995, Iowa native Bill Bryson took a motoring trip around Britain to explore that green and pleasant land. The uproarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, is one of the most acute portrayals of the United Kingdom ever written. Two decades later, Bryson—now a British citizen—set out again to rediscover his adopted country. In these pages, he follows a straight line through the island—from Bognor Regis to Cape Wrath—and shows us every pub, stone village, and human foible along the way. Whether he is dodging cow attacks in Torcross, getting lost in the H&M on Kensington High Street, or—more seriously—contemplating the future of the nation’s natural wonders in the face of aggressive development, Bryson guides us through the old and the new with vivid detail and laugh-out-loud humor. Irreverent, endearing, and always hilarious, The Road to Little Dribbling is filled with Bill Bryson’s deep knowledge and love of his chosen home.

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