![]() The Road to Little Dribbling is consistently and unendingly fabulous and may well be sold out by the time you read this as I intend on buying a copy for everyone I know. ‘Nowhere in the world is there a landscape that has been more intensively utilized-more mined, farmed, quarried, covered with cities and changing factories, threaded with motorways and railways lines-and yet remains so comprehensively and reliably lovely over most of its extent.’ A sharper editorial hand might have trimmed the repetition there is a surfeit of incidents. Mr Bryson is unstinting in his admiration for the British countryside, evangelical about its preservation (he was President of the CPRE for five years) and all too aware that we are in danger of taking it all for granted. Thankfully Bryson is too engaging and witty a writer to turn his latest tour of Britain into a dirge. Having tried to write a book about walking myself, I know exactly what he means. ![]() ‘The thing about walking is that, generally speaking, it is a great deal more fun to do than to read about’, he writes. The Road to Little Dribbling, by Bill Bryson is a really funny book. His brilliance is in bringing a landscape to life not just by describing the things he sees, but by giving voice to the people he meets. ![]() ![]() Country Life's Top 100 architects, builders, designers and gardeners. ![]()
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