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Grab your umbrella and join best-selling author Bill Bryson for a grand tour through the heartland of the United Kingdom.

Chirp and his friends Squawk and Tweet love going on adventures together. Today they've traded their wings for flippers and their playhouse for the Antarctic. BRRR!

Three brave knights to the rescue! Chirp and his friends Squawk and Tweet love going on adventures together.

Chirp and his friends Squawk and Tweet love going on adventures together. Today, they've traded in their playhouse for a spaceship...

Chirp and his friends Squawk and Tweet love going on adventures together. Today, they've traded in their playhouse for the peak of Mount Everest!

Chirp and his friends Squawk and Tweet love going on adventures together.

Chirp and his friends Squawk and Tweet love going on adventures together. Today, they've traded in their playhouse for sun hats and desert boots.

Chirp and his friends Squawk and Tweet love going on adventures together. Today, they've traded in their playhouse for a pirate ship.

Chirp and his friends Squawk and Tweet love going on adventures together. Today, they've traded in their playhouse for a race car.

Chirp and his friends Squawk and Tweet love going on adventures together.

Chirp and his friends Squawk and Tweet love going on adventures together. Today, they've traded in their playhouse for the Old West. They are the brave sheriffs of a deserted ghost town!

Bill Bryson had imagined Australia as a kind of alternative southern California. Of course, what greeted him was something rather different.

If there is one person to whom Lady Marlowe would rather not owe her life, it is the Duke of Buckington, a man she detests.