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Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (June 2, 2015)
Publication Date: June 2, 2015
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When John Steinbeck, who wrote The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and Travels with Charley: In Search of America, met a young man in traveling across America in his converted camping car named Rocinante, he met a young man who longed to travel to Europe with the idealization of the continent as he had seen in magazines and books. Steinbeck, being already weary of the existential dealings on the road, advised him, “What’s the need when the world is conveniently at your fingertips in colors without all those travel-related hassles? You can see the world in books and films and still keep your ideal images of Europe.†Which is exactly why Bill Bryson, an American- born British writer renowned for his great sense of wit and superb command of the English language, decided to embark on his journey once again twenty years after he and his pal Katz backpacked across Europe. Bryson wanted to see Europe in itself with a tabula rosa and write something about the cultures that seemed at once so different and yet so oddly similar in his own eyes. The result is the touchy-feely, impetuously hilarious, and astonishingly insightful Neither Here Nor There.Bryson’s journey began and ended in the two geographical outposts of Europe, Hammerfest and Istanbul. By virtue of his narrative both so inviting and vivid with the use of languages both colloquial and literal that are so characteristic of his writing style, readers will easily and willingly follow his train of travel through the chapters, as he first takes us to Hammerfest to watch the beautiful shimmering gossamer of Northern Lights. We find Bryson feeling not-so-attractive while sitting on a bench at a park in Copenhagen, where all people looked handsome and beautiful. Such existential estrangement became heightened in Belgium, for all along he felt homesick, reminiscing about an old diner in Iowa and its cantankerous but hearty old waitress he frequented. In Amsterdam, he was concerned about the country’s “oddly wearisome†social conventions in regard of its complacency toward untenable political stance under the banner of tolerance. We see Bryson in the streets of Stockholm disappointed in the perfect socialist country littered and defiled by wastes mindlessly thrown away anywhere by its civilized residents without a shade of shame.And who would not but sympathize with Bryson’s pathos in Florence? Here in this City of Flowers, Bryson saw the ubiquitous Gypsies importune everyone, with their haggardly clothed little children as an instrument for orating their poverty to passers-by at which Bryson was righteously indignant. He questioned himself why the police were not making any efforts to stop the Gypsies from harassing people. Further in Austria, we feel for him as his idealization of Austria as the epitome of all things European was ungraciously punctured by unfriendly services, an irritatingly slow mode of business operation, and a lack of charming coffeehouses where he could rest his spent body and spirit for a time. What a Don Quixote-like journey full of episodes it was.Bryson’s cultural notations of each country he visited were, however, devoid of malicious sarcasm or jingoistic ignorance of its customs or social conventions. Things that he experienced in his travel in Europe was a clash of cultures he came from – originally Iowa, The U.S. and England afterwards – and cultures he had imagined in his mind, all of which spellbound him like a Boy in Wonderland. In fact, what fascinated him in Europe was his discovery that the world could be full of variety in which there were many different ways of doing essentially identical things, such as eating and drinking and buying movie tickets.Unlike other travel writers who only write about the sunny sides of the countries and peoples in their interests, Bryson is unafraid of telling readers his observations through his experience with a certain kind of fraternal or even paternal affection with his trademark wits wonderfully interwoven with intelligence and humanism.The travel ends in Istanbul with his hope of seeing more of the world, his everlasting wanderlust still luring with a vision of Asia across the Bosporus Bridge. He’s all up for the unforseeable happenings awaiting for him to encounter because that’s the glory of foreign travel, a travel to a terra ingonita where anyone can become a stranger, a wanderer blissfully ignorant of almost anything. To Bryson, the whole existence of traveler is to be constructed by a series of instantaneous guesses and endless actions. Notwithstanding all the woes of a lone traveler who was culture-bound, Bryson’s travels in Europe was something of his experience in Wonderland filled with a great sense of childlike wonder and appreciation of the wonders of each country in its own colors. Neither Here Nor There is his tale of veni vidi, vici experience and entertaining accounts of the world through his eyes with amusing and telling details resembling none other than themselves.
Interesting reading and Bill Bryson will make you laugh out loud several times, at least. However, the book is now dated and a modern traveler will not find the same quirky conditions or have the same complaints with many of the European countries. For example, I found the major cities in Italy to be devoid of the "litter" that the author observed everywhere in great abundance. Rome, Florence, Venice were all very clean, at least in 2013. Overall, I have found Europeans to be very friendly and welcoming of American travelers. Also, the author reveled in staying in the Bosnia, Serbia, and Bulgaria and observing their collapsing economies from the comfort of his well supplied hotel. Of course, how was he to know that war would soon ravage that area. Anyway, for every bit of praise Bill Bryson had for a locale, he also had a complaint, sometimes very petty or due to his ineptitude. After a while, his whining became tiresome. That being said, the author is a masterful writer with regard to description and achieving a smooth flow.
I wanted to like this book. Bill Bryson sounds a lot like...well, like me, when i'm trying to speak seriously about something but can't resist slipping in an occasional wisecrack. His path is easy enough to follow--similar to those scenes in Indiana Jones movies, where the red line moving across the screen shows the route of whatever vehicle the intrepid doctor has hijacked. Bryson tells us what countries he visits as he tries to recreate a backpacking venture from his youth. He tells us in which cities he stays, and a little of his adventures in finding accommodations. He even recounts his walks through these cities, and mentions some spectacular views from various vistas. But he doesn't say much about what he sees in those views. He describes how remarkable some of the architecture is, but he gives us few details about that at which he is looking. He says comparatively little about the original trip from his youth that he is trying to relive. He does not make Europe sound very enticing, which left me wondering why wrote the book at all.
Whenever I am blue I pick up a Bill Bryson book and see the sunshine above, the skies blue and the warmth of a beloved author's words heal my old weary bones! I am a big fan of Bryson and this short 1993 memoir of his visits to European cities hits the January spot and makes life worth laughing, loving and living once again! Bryson first visited Europe in the early 1970s and later married an English girl and took up residence in the United Kingdom. He has since moved back to the United States. In this travelogue we travel with Bryson to such cities as Stockholm, Paris, Rome, Istantbul, Copenhagen, Brussels, Sofia, Florence, Milan and Como and countries Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, Belgium and Yugoslavia, He also visits other cities in the various countries on his busy tourist schedule. Along the way he wryly comments on diverse topics from hotel rates to the cost of living to the sexual mores and customs prevalent in that country and city. Bryson keeps this book light and lively and fills his pages with anecdotes about interesting characters and unusual scenes he sees along life's winding highway. I envy Bryson the opportunity to travel and have enough money from his book sales to enable him to do so. While I will never visit the sites he visits I can vicariously experience them through the witty and wise words of this modern Mark Twain let loose in Europe!
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