Bill Bryson Runs Out of Reading Material
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 11.20.05 | 10:27 PM ET
Like Bill Bryson, I’m someone who never goes anywhere without taking along something to read, so the predicament he writes about in the T Style Magazine in Sunday’s New York Times struck a particularly nightmarish chord with me: He ran out of reading material while stuck above the Arctic Circle in Norway, waiting 16 days for the aurora borealis to reveal itself.
It’s a short piece, only 355 words, but, as usual, Bryson goes for—and gets—some laughs.
“By the end of the second week, I had read everything in my possession, including the labels inside my suitcase and every word of the three English-language magazines sold in the local newspaper shop,” he writes. “I reached the point where I was calling in twice a day to find out if the new issue of Woman’s Weekly had arrived.”
Related on World Hum:
* Whistling at the Northern Lights
* Bill Bryson on Science and Travel
* The Vital Stats of Travel Books
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
