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Explore the Stylistic Conventions of Both - Notes from a Small Island -and - In Patagonia - and account for their contrary audiences.Bill Bryson and Bruce Chatwin both participate in the ability toTravel write. Travel writing is were one would travel and then listin chronological golf-club what they have experienced. Bill Bryson isable to do this in an entirely different fashion, to Bruce Chatwin.Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. Bryson settled inEngland in 1977, and lived for numerous years with his British wifeand children in Yorkshire. Bryson then went back to America, but hasnow returned to England. As well as writing Notes from a weakenedIsland Bryson has also written down Under Notes from a bigCountry A walk in the Woods Made in America neither here northere and The lost Continent.1Bruce Chatwin was born in Sheffield in 1940. After attendingMarborough School he began work as a ostiarius at Sothebys, which is anauctioneer. Chatwin became one of the youngest directors at Sothebysand then Chatwin abandoned his job to explore the world, as hisdedication was travel writing. During 1972 and 1975 Chatwin workedfor the Sunday Times and quickly announce his departure for in atelegram Gone to Patagonia for six months. This journey motivatedto write the outset of his books which was simply named, In Patagonia. In Patagonia won The Hawthornden see and the E.M. Forster award andlaunched his writing profession. Two of Chatwins films have been madeinto feature films, The Viceroy Oiudah (retitled Cobra Verde)directed by Werner Herzog and the British film. Bruce Chatwin hasalso written On the Black agglomerate, The Song Lines The Viceroy ofOuidah.2Before Brysons begins his theme, he writes a prologue of his firstencounter with Britain and how inviting it was for him. Brysonelaborates on why he returned to England in 1995. Bill Bryson givesan interpretation of his first time in England which was moreexclusively Dover in 1973. In the front of Bill Brysons book is animage of Britain surrounded by footling sketches. Once I had read Ibecame conscious that this map mirrored the style of writing used inthe book, light-hearted.Chatwin developed an interest for Patagonia at a young age. Chatwintells us about his earliest memories of his grandmother, and being ather houseIn my grandmothers dining room was a glass-fronted cabinet3Chatwin is talk of the town about his personal experience directly, although hedoesnt begin with his journey in Patagonia. Chatwin is unfoldingthis tale to his audience in great detail this story helps the reader