Topic: Travel and Tourism

After 10 years in England, Bill Bryson returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the films of his youth were set.

This is much more than a book about a sea voyage. It is about a journey home to his father who is dying, about his crumbling relationship with his wife and also about the historical journey in his search for the North West Passage.