Bryson brings his unique brand of humour to visit writing seeing that he shoulders his backpack, helps to keep a tight hang on his finances and heads for Europe. Exploring with Stephen Katz–also his amazing sidekick within a Walk in the Woods–he wanders from Hammerfest in the far north, to Istanbul in the cusp of Asia. As he makes his method round this extremely assorted continent, he retraces his travels as a student twenty years before with caustic hilarity.