Daniel Cann

This time around Bill Bryson is exploring the continent of Europe. His trip begins at the most northern town Hammerfest to see the Northern Lights and ends in Istanbul. What follows in between provides entertaining observations from the caustic and sardonic man from Des Moines. As with his previous travel book ‘The Lost Continent’ Bryson is on somewhat of a nostalgia trip as he finds himself retracing his steps as a young backpacker nearly twenty years earlier. The book is full of anecdotes ...