Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land, the result being Notes from a Small Island, a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Happily, he has traveled about the countryside again—by bus and train, by rental car and on foot—to see what has changed, and what hasn't. With his unerring eye for the idiotic, the bewildering, the appealing, and the ridiculous, Bryson offers this loving and hilarious (if occasionally spiky) valentine to his adopted country.