(He met his future wife while employed at Holloway.) He also re-visits Virginia Water where he worked at the Holloway Sanatorium when he first came to Britain in 1973. During this trip he insisted on using only public transport, but failed on two occasions: in Oxfordshire and on the journey to John o' Groats he had to rent a car. Bryson covers all corners of the island, observing and talking to people from as far afield as Exeter in the West Country to John o' Groats at the north-eastern tip of Scotland's mainland. Notes from a Small Island is a humorous travel book on Great Britain by American author Bill Bryson, first published in 1995.īryson wrote Notes from a Small Island when he decided to move back to his native United States, but wanted to take one final trip around Great Britain, which had been his home for over twenty years.
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