Product Description: A collection of original travel stories told by some of the world's best novelists, including: Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Tea Obreht, D.B.C. Pierre, and more.

Product Description: Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*We've all dreamt of escaping to a house somewhere. In this collection of stories some of the finest names in contemporary travel writing reveal the perils and pleasures of exchanging the familiar for the foreign...read more

Product Description: Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*Unexpected stories from unexpected places.Many places can feel like nowhere: a desert, an isolated village, even the middle of a bustling, impersonal city. And then something happens: an adventure, a revelation, an experience that changes the whole landscape...read more

Product Description: Make your passion your profession... ...pack a pen with your passport, craft prose that flows and become a Travel Writer. Written by established travel writers and bursting with invaluable advice, this inspiring and practical guide is a must for anyone who has ever yearned to turn their travels into saleable tales...read more

Product Description: A timely collection of inspiring tales, The Kindness of Strangers explores the unexpected human connections that so often transform the experience of travel, and celebrates the gift of kindness around the world.

Offers stories focusing on journeys, discoveries, and adventures in travel destinations way off the beaten path.

Product Description: We've all dreamt of escaping to a House Somewhere. In this collection some of the finest names in contemporary travel writing reveal the perils and pleasures of exchanging the familiar for the foreign.Isabel Allende discovers love and paradise in California, Pico Iyer finds home in Japan amidst the alien and indecipherable, and a dank barge on the Seine opens up a new side of Paris for Mort Rosenblum...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Have soldiers ever mistaken you fro an enemy agent? Have police ever thought you were a murderer on the run? From kidnappings in Morocco to riots in London, from close encounters with Brazilian voodoo to close shaves with Russian bureaucracy, it's all in a day's work for Lonely Planet writers and staff...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A collection of award-winning travelogues and essays features Simon Winchester's account of a midnight drive through Romania, Maxine Rose Schur's recollections of her poverty-stricken days as a student in Paris, Tim Cahill's journey to the remote village of Roraima, Venezuela, and other works by Peter Mayle, Isabel Allende, Jan Morris, Po Bronson, and others. Original. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)