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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
By an odd chance I came across an excerpt from Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, the 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner in non-fiction. The selection I read, an opening section from the book, was...
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Reading Kon-Tiki in Hawaii
I needed a good book to read during my last trip to Hawaii. Fiction, literature, nothing really felt right. When I’m traveling I want a travelogue, a travel memoir, something with a little adventure,...
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Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed’s Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail was at the top of my booklist since reading her Dear Sugar column, Write Like a Motherfucker. It gave me some encouragement I...
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The Best American Travel Writing of 2013
A lot of the travel stories I read online are a tad, well, shallow. I see plenty of Hey, look at me and what I did! stories, or various lists of top five this or that, as opposed to anything with depth...
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Travels in Siberia
Ian Frazier writes in Travels in Siberia, which was published in 2010, that Midwesterners have an unexplained fascination with Siberia. I am one of those people. While growing up in Minnesota, for...
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36 Hours: 125 Weekends in Europe
The New York Times’ 36 Hours: 125 Weekends in Europe was a Christmas gift to me this year from my sister and her family. Since receiving it, I’ve thumbed through the book a great many times in search...
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Travel Books to Read if You’re Not Traveling
Are you staying local this summer? I am. I’m still traveling, but just not as far. This is intentional, because I have some other plans in the works for later this year. So how to get by? By reading...
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The Best American Travel Writing of 2000
The Best American Travel Writing of 2000, edited by Bill Bryson, is the first book in the series. The other annual compilations that I’ve read impressed me so that I wanted to go back to the start and...
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