Bill Bryson's African Diary

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Bill Bryson's African Diary
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Cover of 2002 Doubleday hardback edition
Author Bill Bryson
IllustratorNeil Gower
Subject Kenya
Genre Travel
Publisher Doubleday
Publication date
2002
Pages63
ISBN 0-7679-1506-2
Preceded by Down Under  
Followed by A 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]

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