This month’s featured author from our Unwind the Mind: Popular Reading Collection is Bill Bryson, author most recently of The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain.
Bryson is known for humorous travel accounts like The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America and A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. He’s also written some very funny history and language books including The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got that Way. His acclaimed book on the history of science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the Royal Society’s Aventis Prize as well as the Descartes Prize, the European Union’s highest literary award.
The Road to Little Dribbling revisits a trip he took in England 20 years earlier, where he comments on what’s changed and what hasn’t.
Find interviews with Bill Bryson:
- Greenstreet, R. (2016, Feb. 20). Q&A: Bill Bryson. The Guardian.
- Grossman, L. (2010, Oct. 18). Q&A: Bill Bryson. Time, 176, pp.79.
- Highfield, R. (2009, Dec. 19). Everything that happens everywhere is amazing. New Scientist, 204, 32-33.
Find reviews of The Road to Little Dribbling:
- Becker, A. (2016, Jan. 27). A Walk in the Wolds. New York Times Book Review, p.9.
- Meinhardt, M. (2016, Feb. 17). Look at it now. TLS, (5890), 29.
- Wagner, E. (2015, Oct. 23). Little Britain. New Statesman, 144, 53.
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