“These stories made me fall in love with the world again.”
—Isabel Allende, author of The House of the Spirits,
Eva Luna, and Maya’s Notebook
“Don George is a legendary travel writer and editor.”
—National Geographic’s Intelligent Travel
“What shines with crystal clarity through all of these wise and wonderful essays is Don George’s irrepressible generosity of spirit. He loves the world he finds, and the world loves him back in equal measure. Those of us lucky enough to know him have long recognized Don as a seriously life-enhancing kind of fellow: this marvelous collection serves amply to reinforce the notion. And no: no favors were sought or offered for this message. Not a one.”
—Simon Winchester, author of Pacific,
The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa
“If you meet Don George on the page or in the flesh, you quickly see that he’s always tilted toward the sun, as a perpetual singer of yes to life, to fun, to innocence, to vulnerability, and to surrender. All his writing, and much of his being, seems to be about rendering oneself open, daring to listen, and putting forward one’s best and most hopeful side, in the conviction that it will be answered in kind.”
—Pico Iyer, author of The Lady and the Monk,
Video Night in Kathmandu, and The Art of Stillness
“Don George, the acclaimed and award-winning editor of ten anthologies of travel stories, has finally produced a collection of his own and it’s everything you’d expect from a Don George project: passionate, insightful, and humorous. What can I say? The brilliant editor is a brilliant writer.”
—Tim Cahill, author of Jaguars Ripped My Flesh,
Pass the Butterworms, and Hold the Enlightenment
“Don George is an inveterate adventurer and master storyteller, with the biggest, most generous heart on the open road.”
—Andrew McCarthy, actor, director,
and author of The Longest Way Home
“Don George describes himself as a ‘travel evangelist’ but he is much more than that. Yes, he loves to talk about the life-changing possibilities of travel, but he is also a bestselling author, regarded by many as the preeminent travel writer of his generation.”
—Christopher Elliott, consumer advocate,
journalist, and author of Scammed