Bill Bryson's African Diary

Bill Bryson's African Diary
Cover of 2002 Doubleday hardback edition
Author	Bill Bryson
Illustrator	Neil Gower
Subject	Kenya
Genre	Travel
Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	2002
Pages	63
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 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.^[1]

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."^[2]

Bill Bryson - selected bibliography

Travel	The Lost Continent Neither Here Nor There Notes from a Small Island A Walk in the Woods Notes from a Big Country Down Under African Diary The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From a Small Island

Language	The Mother Tongue Made in America Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors

Science	A Short History of Nearly Everything

Memoir	The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

Biography	Shakespeare: The World as Stage

History	At Home: A Short History of Private Life One Summer: America, 1927

References

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