Bill Bryson To Publish First Travel Book In 15 Years

Bill Bryson–perhaps the most genial living travel companion in print–will publish his first travel book in 15 years. The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island is due out in the UK this fall. It’s a follow-up of sorts, 20 years later, to Notes From a Small Island, which in 1995 made Bryson famous and beloved in England.

Bryson’s travel memoir A Walk in the Woods (1998)–about his journey hiking the Appalachian Trail–made him a star in America, too. (A Walk in the Woods can also be seen–in terms of establishing the contemporary walkabout genre–as a less gritty precursor to the massive success of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild.) Bryson soon left the travel biz behind to explore nothing less than everything. Truly: he wrote the compulsively readable A Short History of Nearly Everything (2004), an accomplishment large enough to make an author’s career even if it were the only book he wrote. Expect Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island to quickly establish a perch on the bestseller list–and to delight Bryson’s legion of fans.