Summary of Bill Bryson's The Road to Little Dribbling

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I knew nothing about Bognor Regis before I went there for the first time. I had heard that some British monarch, at some point in the past, called out the words Bugger Bognor just before expiring.
#2 The king chose Bognor not because he had any special affection for it, but because a rich friend of his named Sir Arthur du Cros had a mansion there called Craigweil House, which he offered to the king for his private use. The king died six years later, and the town petitioned to have the word Regis added to its title.
#3 The town of Bognor Regis is not such a bad place. It has a long beach with a curving concrete promenade, and a town center that is compact and tidy, if not thriving. But the residents of the smart houses on the promenade pretend not to see us on the beach, because they are afraid of being seen by their neighbors.
#4 I was excited about taking a bus to Brighton, and I had carefully selected the 12. 19 as the best bus for my purposes. But as I ambled to the bus stop, I watched in mild dismay as my bus departed just ahead of a cloud of black smoke.

Sujets

• Travel
• Great Britain
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 14 juin 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822531901
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Bill Bryson's The Road to Little Dribbling
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14 Insights from Chapter 15 Insights from Chapter 16 Insights from Chapter 17 Insights from Chapter 18 Insights from Chapter 19 Insights from Chapter 20 Insights from Chapter 21 Insights from Chapter 22 Insights from Chapter 23 Insights from Chapter 24 Insights from Chapter 25 Insights from Chapter 26
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I knew nothing about Bognor Regis before I went there for the first time. I had heard that some British monarch, at some point in the past, called out the words Bugger Bognor just before expiring.

#2

The king chose Bognor not because he had any special affection for it, but because a rich friend of his named Sir Arthur du Cros had a mansion there called Craigweil House, which he offered to the king for his private use. The king died six years later, and the town petitioned to have the word Regis added to its title.

#3

The town of Bognor Regis is not such a bad place. It has a long beach with a curving concrete promenade, and a town center that is compact and tidy, if not thriving. But the residents of the smart houses on the promenade pretend not to see us on the beach, because they are afraid of being seen by their neighbors.

#4

I was excited about taking a bus to Brighton, and I had carefully selected the 12. 19 as the best bus for my purposes. But as I ambled to the bus stop, I watched in mild dismay as my bus departed just ahead of a cloud of black smoke.

#5

I was once again in McDonald’s, this time for the first time after my previous incident. I vowed to behave myself, but McDonald’s is just too much for me. I ordered a chicken sandwich and a Diet Coke.

#6

I was excited to travel through a succession of small and, I hoped, charming resorts. I imagined them as the sort of happy villages that you would find in a Ladybird book from the 1950s. But for the longest time, we never went near the sea or even any identifiable communities.

#7

I hate to sound like an old man, but why are these people famous. What qualities do they possess that endear them to the wider world. They exist in droves now. As if to illustrate my point, just beyond Littlehampton a young man with baggy pants and an insouciant slouch boarded the bus and took a seat across from me.

#8

I woke up in Worthing, and immediately realized I had no idea where I was. I got on another bus, and continued my journey by road. The coast road became a long line of scrapyards, builders’ merchants, car repair shops, and finally a giant power station.

#9

Everest was born in 1790 in either Greenwich or Wales, the son of a lawyer. He was sent to India to serve as chief assistant on the Great Trigonometrical Survey, which was to survey an arc of longitude across India. He died in 1823.

#10

The Church of St Andrew welcomed me, but the vicar’s name, the times of services, and the phone number for the churchwarden were all blank. Three groups of vagrants occupied the churchyard, drinking and enjoying the sunshine.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The best indicator of a stroke is whatever you were doing just before you had a stroke. The warnings are accompanied by alarming accounts of people who failed to heed the signals.

#2

The Seven Sisters is one of the great walks of England. From the top of Haven Brow, the view is just phenomenal. The landscape is beautiful, and nothing is more extraordinary in Britain than its landscapes.

#3

The South Downs Way is a 100-mile trail that runs from Winchester to Eastbourne along the rolling chalk downs of the south coast. It is a delight to walk on, as it is filled with lovely scenery and safe walking paths.

#4

The British countryside is threatened by the fact that people take it for granted. The things that make the British countryside comely and distinctive are almost entirely no longer needed economically.

#5

After Belle Tout, the path goes down a long hill, then a steady climb towards the summit of Beachy Head. At the top, you get the most spectacular views of the famous Beachy Head lighthouse with its jaunty red and white stripes.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

Britain is a small country, but it is also a rich one. It is the fourth largest island state, and second most wealthy, by population and wealth. It is also the thirteenth largest land mass on the planet.

#2

In Britain, walkers are often killed by cows. Four people were fatally trampled in 2009 alone. One of these unfortunates was a veterinarian out walking her dogs on the Pennine Way in Yorkshire.

#3

I have a fondness for the town of Dover, which was where I first set foot on English soil. I spent my first forty-eight hours in Britain there, and I liked it. But on every subsequent visit, Dover has visibly deteriorated.

#4

The Churchill hotel, which was a posh place I had visited many years ago, had closed about five years earlier. The central part of the old hotel was now called the Dover Marina Hotel. It looked awfully quiet.

#5

The first electric light in the world was installed at the South Foreland lighthouse in England in 1858. It was a temperamental and expensive piece of equipment, but it was the only place in the world where you could see an electric light in operation.