Notes From A Small IslandBill Bryson's hilarious tour of his adopted country the book that was voted the nation's favourite book on modern Britain in a World Book Day BBC poll. In 1995, before leaving his much loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of