After nearly two decades in England, the world’s best–loved travel writer returned to live in the country he had left as a youth. Of course there were things Bryson missed about Blighty, but any sense of loss was countered by the joy of rediscovering some of the forgotten treasures of his childhood. So, gathered here, are eighteen months’ worth of his popular columns from the Mail on Sunday’s Night & Day magazine about the strangest of phenomena—the American way of life.