World Hum 's, countdown of the top-30 travel books of all time finishes today. Late last week, I reviewed Pico Iyer's Video Night in Kathmandu (#8) , of which I wrote: A collection of eleven essays chronicling the cultural fusion of East and West in the 1980s, Iyer’s literary debut is an answer to all...

. Elliott Hester’s Adventures of a Continental Drifter : An Around-the-World Excursion into Weirdness, Danger, Lust, and the Perils of Street Food Reviewed by Bill Jenkins Elliott Hester's account of his yearlong round-the-world trip has plenty of moments common to most travelers. Who hasn't spent an uncomfortable day at a legendary destination, distracted from the...

. Paul Theroux’s Dark Star Safari Reviewed by Tom Davis Paul Theroux’s most recent travel narrative, Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town (Houghton Mifflin, 2003) is a vivid reminder that there are two types of travel. In one form, a person can be transported from the familiar to the foreign quickly, and...

By request -- and following on to this week's post about meeting poet Billy Collins at the Key West Literary Seminar -- here's the Collins poem that served as the original epigram for my website in 1998. Dancing Toward Bethlehem By Billy Collins If there is only enough time in the final minutes of the...

It's once again winter holiday season, and once again I'm getting feedback from readers who are buying copies of Vagabonding as Christmas presents. I think that's great, and I'll reiterate that Vagabonding makes a great holiday gift for: College or high school students nearing graduation. Twenty- and thirtysomethings who don't like their jobs, are currently...

Don George recently told me that he's begnning to assemble Lonely Planet's latest collection of travel stories, Tales from Nowhere . If you have a travel story that might fit the bill, check out the submission requirements below and send it in! Call for Submissions: Tales from Nowhere We’ve all been to Nowhere. It might...