Synopses & Reviews
This collection offers two dozen essays and sketches about one of the passions of Salter's life, travel, a subject beloved by writers across the centuries. Over twenty years of skiing, hiking, climbing from Colorado to Japan to the Tyrol, from Austria and Switzerland to Germany and France Salter is an engaging companion, sharing his great enthusiasm and adventures.
James Salter's novels and volumes of memoir have been widely celebrated and he is now recognized as one of America's most important writers. Susan Sontag once remarked, "[Salter] is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as yet unpublished books I wait for impatiently."
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"This is an engaging collection for sophisticated travel mavens who want to learn about obscure and engaging travel destinations usually omitted from travel guides." Library Journal
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"Brilliant. Sentence for sentence, Salter is the master." Richard Ford
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"There is scarcely a writer alive who could not learn from his passion and precision of language." Peter Matthiessen
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"A beautiful stylist, he handles words as though they were fine marble; all angles and chiseled perfection, in search of the ideal form." Boston Globe
Synopsis
This collection offers two dozen essays and sketches about one of the passions of Salter's lifetravela subject beloved by writers across the centuries. Over twenty years of skiing, hiking, climbing from Colorado to Japan to the Tyrol, from Austria and Switzerland to Germany and France, Salter is an engaging companion sharing his great enthusiasm and adventures.
James Salter's novels and volumes of memoir have been widely celebrated and he is now recognized as one of America's most important writers.
About the Author
James Salter is the author of seven other books, including Burning the Days, Light Years, and Dusk and Other Stories, for which he was given the PEN/Faulkner Award. He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He divides his time between New York and Colorado.