![]() ![]() ![]() I know it should, but it isn't." This is typical Bryson: the humor begins before the book does and it's subtle, satisfying and very real. In the acknowledgments he writes that, ".in the hope of forestalling ten thousand or so letters from readers pointing out that it should be called In a Sunburnt Country. In A Sunburned Country is Bryson's eighth book. Bill Bryson has a well-developed sense of the ridiculous, the outlandish and sublime and he shares this with his readers in a generous, openhanded fashion. To travel with Bryson is not to simply experience a locale. Readers enjoy not only Bryson's special vision, but his humor, as well. The publication of each of his last seven books - five of them travel-based - has brought him an ever larger readership. Frances Mayes has been making a place for herself with her elegant and eloquent accounts of living and traveling in Italy. For the late Bruce Chatwin, writing about places was akin to writing a novel: it's widely acknowledged that he mixed a lot of fiction in with his traveling facts. ![]() Paul Theroux is, perhaps, one of the most revered and self-indulgent who - nonetheless - manages to evoke colors, scents and sounds with the smallest application of his golden pen. There is a small cadre of travel writers who take you with them - transporting their readers almost as if by magic - as opposed to those who make lists of what hotels to stay at and where to go for the best hamburgers. Review | In A Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson ![]()
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