This unconventional line, discovered by Bill Bryson himself, is apparently the longest straight line possible across the UK when looking at a map. So, if you do want to travel the length of the UK in a straight line which way should you travel? However, whilst it may be the longest route via road at 874 miles, you cannot easily travel from one to another in a straight line. Land’s End to John O’Groats, from southwest to northeast it has always been believed that in order to traverse the UK from one extreme to the other that you must visit both of these locations. The Road to Little Dribbling reaffirms his stature as a master of the travel narrative-and a really, really funny guy.The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson More About Bill Bryson’s Latest Book Nothing is more entertaining than Bill Bryson on the road-and on a tear. With his matchless instinct for the funniest and quirkiest and his unerring eye for the idiotic, the bewildering, the appealing, and the ridiculous, he offers acute and perceptive insights into all that is best and worst about Britain today. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed-and what hasn’t.įollowing (but not too closely) a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis in the south to Cape Wrath in the north, by way of places few travelers ever get to at all, Bryson rediscovers the wondrously beautiful, magnificently eccentric, endearingly singular country that he both celebrates and, when called for, twits. The result was Notes from a Small Island, a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. Prepare for total joy and multiple episodes of unseemly laughter. A loving and hilarious-if occasionally spiky-valentine to Bill Bryson’s adopted country, Great Britain.
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