| Bill Bryson's African Diary | |
| Author: | Bill Bryson |
| Illustrator: | Neil Gower |
| Subject: | Kenya |
| Genre: | Travel |
| Publisher: | Doubleday |
| Pub 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 bestselling 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]
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]