Notes from a Big Country is a collection of articles written by Bill Bryson for The Mail on Sunday’s Night and Day supplement during the 1990s, published together first in Britain in paperback in 1999. The book discusses Bryson’s views on relocating to Hanover, New Hampshire after spending two decades in Britain.

The book contains articles which Bryson wrote for the Mail between 1996 and 1998. In the articles, he discusses a multitude of topics, such as the death penalty, the war on drugs, gardening, commercials, book tours, inefficiency, Thanksgiving and plane flight.

From perfectly formed potatoes to adulterous US presidents, and from domestic upsets to millennial fever, Bill Bryson just cannot resist airing his opinions and standing up for his (mostly) law-abiding fellow American citizens. But of course after twenty years in England, he is now back on the other side of the pond, and is obviously having a little trouble finding his true American self again.