"Enchanted Liguri"By David Downie
Mondo pesto, Liguria's green cuisine
Plus Trenette or Trofie al pesto:
A recipe for Ligurian pesto and fresh pasta
(12/22/97)
"Won Ton Lust" By John Krich
The best twice-cooked pork in China
(12/18/97)
"Fifty Years of Europe" By Jan Morris
France, England and Germany past and present
(12/11/97)
"Full Circle" By Michael Palin
In an excerpt from his book, Michael Palin describes his journeys through Cambodia
(11/18/97)
"Open Lands:
Travels Through Russia's Once Forbidden Places" By Mark Talpin
Forbidden Russia: A traveler takes the road less traveled into Russia's newly opened territories
(11/13/97)
"Travelers' Tales: Nepal" By Robert J. Matthews
"A Simple Gift": A touching encounter with a leper in Nepal
(09/02/97)
"Desiring Italy" By Mary Taylor Simeti
A young woman's Sicilian journal
(08/19/97)
"Days and Nights on the Grand Trunk Road" By Anthony Weller
An evocative portrait of Lahore, Pakistan, from Anthony Weller's extraordinarily intelligent and open-hearted account of a journey
from Calcutta to the Khyber Pass
(08/05/97)
"To Timbuktu" By Mark Jenkins
African encounters
(07/29/97)
"In the Ring of Fire" By James D. Houston
Pacific Journeys: Three Kinds of Silence
(07/22/97)
"Two Towns in Provence" By M.F.K. Fisher
Wanderlust Contributing Editor Peter Mayle writes about the book that inspired him to go to Provence:
M.F.K. Fisher's "Two Towns in Provence."
(07/08/97)
"Roughing It" By Mark Twain
Travel editor Lynn Ferrin describes the timeless art of Mark Twain's evocations of
place in "Roughing It."
(07/08/97)
"The Snow Leopard" By Peter Matthiessen
Writer Amanda Jones recalls reading Peter Matthiessen's masterful account of his
Himalayan ascent, "The Snow Leopard," on her own journey down the mountains
(07/08/97)
"Natural Opium"By Diane Johnson
Salon Book Editor Dwight Garner praises the engaging riches of Diane Johnson's far-flung
travails in "Natural Opium"
(07/08/97)
"The Soul of Golf" By William Hallberg
On a cross-country search for the soul of golf, author William Hallberg seeks out an all-black golf course and discovers cosmic truth
(07/01/97)
"Yak Butter and Black Tea" By Wade Brackenbury
A traveler crosses into forbidden Chinese territory in hopes of finding a village untouched by time.
(06/24/97)
"Trout Fisher's Almanac" Edited by Sid Evans
Mike Hudoba recalls the subtle charms and meditative quality of trout fishing
(06/10/97)
"Travelers' Tales: Paris" Edited by James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger and Sean O'Reilly
"Paris In Pink" By Katya Macklovich
Swayed and seduced by the City of Light, a broken-hearted woman
rediscovers passion
(06/03/97)
"Into Thin Air" By Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer recounts his harrowing journey up Mount Everest, on the fatal expedition that claimed the lives of four of his teammates
(05/24/97)
"In Light of India" By Octavio Paz
Beholding Bombay
- Books on India
- Getting there
(05/20/97)
"Anatomy of Restlessness" By Bruce Chatwin
Gone to Timbuctoo: A brilliant travel writer's reflections on an almost mythic destination
-Getting there
(05/13/97)
"Travelers' Tales: Brazil" By Christopher Hall
"My Night of Candomblé": Bewitched in Brazil.
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Books on Brazil
- Getting there
(05/06/97)
"Questions of Heaven"
By Gretel Ehrlich
An American Buddhist's climb up a sacred mountain in China
(04/29/97)
"The River at the Center of the World" By Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester's epic account of a journey up the Yangtze, which flows through 3,900 miles of geographically diverse and culturally rich territory from the Tibetan highlands to the East China Sea.
(04/22/97)
"Under the Tuscan Sun" By Frances Mayes
In Mayes' back-to-basics fantasy of Old World living, the real estate is the protagonist, evoked with a mix of endearment, obsession and frustration
- Books
on Tuscany
- Getting there
(04/15/97)
"FOOD: True Stories of Life on the Road" Edited By Richard Sterling
"Waltz at the End of Earth" By Paula McDonald: The poignant tale of a life-changing encounter on a remote isle, far from the shores of mainland China
(04/08/97)
"Pass the Butterworms" By Tim Cahill
For Tim Cahill, a stay among the Stone Age inhabitants of a Papua New Guinea village lends new meaning to the notion of family values
Plus: An interview with Tim Cahill
(03/25/97)