I would make a genuinely terrible guide…– Bill Bryson
I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can’t remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and I
I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can’t remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and I
Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma.
I hadn’t realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh’s achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he
In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It’s no accident that the ‘Book-of-the-Month Club’ and ‘The Literary Guild’
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
There’d never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American
A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing
I’m not funny in person. I mean I’m really not. I’m one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.
Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that
Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don’t seem to wear shorts. American men seem to be
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