How amazing it is that this wonderful book, curated by editor Don George, is in the New York Times today as one of the best travel books of the season, in a glorious write up by Andrew Mc Carthy: read on: Another fine anthology has been compiled by one of the travel industry’s more respected authorities. Don George has served as travel editor at The San Francisco Examiner and at Salon. The essays he’s collected in AN INNOCENT ABROAD: Life-Changing Trips From 35 Great Writers (Lonely Planet, paper, $15.99) hint at the road’s possibilities. There are tales here from such travel-writing royalty as Jan Morris, recalling her first trip to Venice as a soldier in the British Army: “It was not the grandeur of the place that captured me, but the strange lapping of its waters, the secrecy of it all. . . . A sudden burst of sunlight over the waterfront affected me like a melody direct from Mozart.” And Tim Cahill, with typically poignant humor, conjures — or, rather, fails to conjure — the location of a transcendent moment from his youth: “the mountain or the deep valley or whatever it was” that “shimmered in my vision,” in a story called “The Place I’ll Never Forget.” It is truly extraordinary to be in this book and join the magnificent Jan Morris, Cheryl Strayed, and so many other great storytellers in my favorite genre on earth: the literary travelogue. #happiness #gratitude
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 08:19:23 +0000
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