Bill Bryson's African Diary

Bill Bryson's African Diary
Cover of 2002 Doubleday hardback edition
AuthorBill Bryson
IllustratorNeil Gower
SubjectKenya
GenreTravel
PublisherDoubleday
Publication date
2002
Pages63
ISBN0-7679-1506-2
Preceded byDown Under 
Followed byA Short History of Nearly Everything 

Bill Bryson's African Diary is a 2002 book by bestselling travel writer Bill Bryson. In this book, Bryson recounts his trip to Kenya in 2002, sharing his experiences and observations about Kenyan culture, geography, and politics. He also discusses his visits to poverty-fighting projects run by CARE International, to which he donated all royalties from the book.[1]

Reception

In a review published in the Guardian, Lionel Shriver criticized the book's length, describing it as "less a book than a pamphlet." Shriver also disliked the book's tone: "a po-faced, gee-whizz sincerity ill-suited to a writer who has made his reputation for being light and wry (and even snide) in droll travel books."[2]

References

  1. ^ "Bill Bryson is this year's Christmas cracker | CARE International United Kingdom | One of the world's leading poverty chariti". www.careinternational.org.uk. Archived from the original on 12 April 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  2. ^ "Review: African Diary by Bill Bryson". TheGuardian.com. 21 December 2002.


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