NOTES FROM SMALL ISLAND

Reacting to an itch common to Midwesterners since there's been a Midwest from which to escape, writer Bill Bryson moved from Iowa to Britain in 1973. Working for such places as Times of London, among others, he has lived quite happily there ever since. Now Bryson has decided his native country needs him--but first, he's going on a roundabout jaunt on the island he loves. Britain fascinates Ame ricans: it's familiar, yet alien/ the same in some ways, yet so different. Bryson does an excellent job of showing his adopted home to a Yank ...[Read more]