Bill Bryson's African Diary

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William McGurry (nato l'8 dicembre 1951) è un autore britannico americano di libri di saggistica su argomenti tra cui viaggi, inglese e scienza. Nato negli Stati Uniti, residente in Gran Bretagna per la maggior parte della sua vita adulta, è tornato negli Stati Uniti tra il 1995 e il 2003 e detiene la cittadinanza americana e britannica. Ha servito come Rettore della Durham University dal 2005 al 2011.

Bryson è salito alla ribalta nel Regno Unito pubblicando e accompagnando la serie televisiva Notes from a Small Island (1995), un'esplorazione della Gran Bretagna. Ha ottenuto ancora una volta ampi riconoscimenti per aver pubblicato A Short History of Almost Everything (2003), un libro ampiamente acclamato per la sua comunicazione accademica accessibile. Nell'ottobre 2020 ha annunciato di essersi "ritirato" dallo scrivere libri.

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In the early fall of 2002, famed travel Writer Bill Bryson journeyed to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local communities to eradicate poverty around the world. He arrived with a set of mental images of Africa gleaned from television broadcasts of low-budget Jungle Jim movies in his Iowa childhood and a single viewing of the film version of Out of Africa. (Also with some worries about tropical diseases, insects and large predators.) But the vibrant reality of Kenya and its people took over the second he deplaned in Nairobi, and this diary records Bill Bryson's impresssions of his trip with his inimitable trademark style of wry observation and curious insight. From the wrenching poverty of the Kibera slum in Nairobi to the meticulously manicured grounds of the Karen Blixen house and the human fossil riches of the National Museum, Bryson registers the striking contrasts of a postcolonial society in transition. He visits the astoundingly vast Great Rift Valley; undergoes the rigors of a teeth-rattling train journey to Mombasa and a hair-whitening flight through a vicious storm; and visits the refugee camps and the agricultural and economic projects where dedicated CARE professionals wage noble and dogged war against poverty, dislocation and corruption.

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