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Notes from a Small Island

Name: Notes from a Small Island
Author: Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson

Notes from a Small Island is a humorous travel book on Great Britain by American author Bill Bryson, first published in 1995.

“The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here twelve hours and already they loved me.”

Bill Bryson book Notes from a Small Island

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“I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a hundred more to dash around positioning the rollers. Just think about it for a minute. Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position, and then saying, "Right, lads! Another twenty like that, plus some lintels and maybe a couple of dozen nice bluestones from Wales, and we can party!"”

Bill Bryson book Notes from a Small Island

Whoever was the person behind Stonehenge was one dickens of a motivator, I'll tell you that.
Notes from a Small Island (1995)

“Why, it's a perfect little city. If you have never been to Durham, go there at once. Take my car. It's wonderful.”

Bill Bryson book Notes from a Small Island

Bill Bryson was later awarded an honorary doctorate and appointed to the position of Chancellor of the University of Durham http://www.dur.ac.uk/news.service/more.php?item_type=news&itemID=829.
Notes from a Small Island (1995)

“Blackpool's illuminations are nothing if not splendid, and they are not splendid.”

Bill Bryson book Notes from a Small Island

Notes from a Small Island (1995)

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