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Notes d'une petite île Séries

Cette série explore avec humour et perspicacité les particularités culturelles, les habitants idiosyncratiques et les paysages pittoresques d'une nation insulaire. L'auteur capture la vie quotidienne, les traditions singulières et les situations amusantes avec esprit et observation personnelle. Elle offre une perspective unique sur le pays à travers les yeux d'un observateur qui remarque les petits détails. Ces livres sont parfaits pour les lecteurs qui apprécient les aperçus pleins d'esprit et les expériences de voyage authentiques.

The Road to Little Dribbling
Notes from a Small Island

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  1. Notes from a Small Island

    • 415pages
    • 15 heures de lecture

    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

    • 400pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    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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