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*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 and DBC Pierre...read more

A collection of more than thirty essays, originally published in Preservation magazine, offers the personal reflections of noted writers on places that had great meaning and signficance in their lives, featuring pieces by J. M. Coetzee, Madison Smartt Bell, Thomas Mallon, Ann Beattie, Reeve Lindbergh, and others. 20,000 first printing.