Bill Bryson, known in England as "the funniest travel writer alive," returns to the States and walks the Appalachian Trail, starting in Hanover, New Hampshire. This tour of America's most outrageous absurdities presents his comic musings of the quirkiest aspects of life in America, right down to hardware-store lingo, tax-return instructions, and vulnerability to home injury ... proving that there's truly no place like home, especially if it's in America.