Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson

Résumé :

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 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 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

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A propos de l'auteur :

Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, en 1951. He settled in England in 19777, and lived for many years with his English wife and four children in North Yorkshire. His books include the bestsellers The Lost Continent, Neither Here Nor There and A Walk in the Woods, and his two acclaimed books about the English language, Mother Tongue and Made In America.

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