Thirty years after backpacking across Europe, Bill Bryson decides to retrace the journey he undertook in the halcyon days of his youth–carrying with him a bag of maps, old clothes…and a stinging wit honed to razor sharpness by two decades of adult experience.īill Bryson read “somewhere” that nearly three million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens–clearly the Americans needed Bill back. The result is a hilarious social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain. But not before taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to move his wife and kids back to his homeland of the United States.
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