A former Chancellor of Durham University, he was President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England for five years, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. Bill Bryson was born in the American Mid-West, and now lives in the UK. If I can ever write half as well as him I’ll be pretty pleased. He has a unique talent for cramming a book with facts, and combining that with hilarious stories of his travels. Bryson has also written books on language, on Shakespeare, on history, and on his own childhood in the hilarious memoir The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. Down Under: Notes from a Sunburned Country (Bill Bryson) Another hard choice, as I have not read a bad book by Bill Bryson, but this is my favourite. 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, and is the biggest selling popular science book of the 21st century. With stopovers in major cities, out-of-the-way. His new number one Sunday Times bestseller is The Road to Little Dribbling. In a Sunburned Country (2000) is Bill Brysons personal account of his time traveling around Australia.
Another travel book, A Walk in the Woods, has become a major film starring Robert Redford, Nick Nolte and Emma Thompson. Bill Bryson's bestselling travel books include The Lost Continent and Notes from a Small Island, which in a national poll was voted the book that best represents Britain. This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Style, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.
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