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Illustrator Neil Gower Pages 63 Preceded by Down Under Genre Travel literature Subject Kenya | 3.4/5 Goodreads Publication date 2002 ISBN 0-7679-1506-2 Originally published 2002 Page count 63 Publisher Doubleday | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Followed by A Short History of Nearly Everything Similar Bill Bryson books, Africa books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bill Bryson's African Diary is a 2002 book by best-selling travel writer Bill Bryson. The book details a trip Bryson took to Kenya in 2002. Bryson describes his experiences there and observations about Kenyan culture, geography, and politics, as well as his visits to poverty-fighting projects run by CARE International, to which he donated all royalties for the book.
Reception
In a review published in the Guardian Lionel Shriver was critical of 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."
References
Bill Bryson's African Diary Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA