Advantages: Easy to read from start to finish Disadvantages: none
...I've always been a Michael Palin fan. I'd watched Around the world in 80 days, Pole to pole, and Sahara. This book accompanies the more recent series, New Europe. The thinking behind New Europe was that of all the continents Michael Palin had visited, Eu ...
Advantages: Excellent read, easy to get into Disadvantages: Too short
Absolutely love the way Michael Palin writes his books. Not only is his as honest as possible about the situations that he finds himself in, but also his comedy back ground creeps in on many occassions. Michael Palin starts this journey in Slovenia and ma ...
Advantages: Sharp, superb writing Disadvantages: So much tragedy in war
In September 1943 Norman Lewis, an officer with the Field Security Service, a division of the Intelligence Corps of the British Army, sailed with the American 5th Army to Salerno as part of the force which was to invade Italy. With the 5th Army HQ he lan ...
Advantages: It's Bill Bryson, hilarious, excellently written, short stories Disadvantages: Some parts repeated from other books, can be irritating!
I've read several of Bill Bryson's books and thoroughly enjoyed them, so when "Notes from a Big Country" came up on BookMooch I was looking forward to reading it without having to pay for it (I know the library is another option, but I like to keep books ...
Advantages: Diverting and accessible. Good for dipping into again and again. Disadvantages: Just slightly dated(?)
Bill Bryson needs little or no introduction nowadays, as one of ‘our’ best known travel writers. This collection of ‘letters from America’ still raises a smile some 14 years since their first publication in book form. Bryson’s ‘Notes from a Big Country ...
