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 'Ooh lovely' at the sight of a cup of tea and a plate of biscuits Īnd Gardeners' Question Time. In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family,īill 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. The nation's favourite book on modern Britain in a World Book Day BBC poll. Bill Bryson's hilarious tour of his adopted country- the book that was voted
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