The British people have spoken, and they have declared that the author who best exemplifies an understanding of and love for the U.K. is none other than travel author and novelist Bill Bryson. Bryson’s Notes From A Small Island was chosen as the ‘book that best represents England’ in a poll organized for World Book Day, and it beat out Orwell’s 1984, among other classic British books. Of course, Bryson is from Des Moines, Iowa…