A collection of essays on the desert landscape between Santa Fe, Yuma, the Grand Canyon, and Nogales considers such topics as the Native American competition for space with cotton plantation farmers,
The oldest of the Hawaiian islands, Kauai is remarkably unchanged. It is the only island from which the others are not visible, except for tiny, privately owned Niihau. With a population of only 5,000
A blending of art and cultural criticism, travel writing, and personal narrative, Sicilian Odyssey is Francine Prose?s imaginative consideration of the diverse cultural legacies found juxtaposed and e
The Norte Grande of Chile, the world's driest desert, had ''engendered contemporary Chile, everything that was good about it, everything that was dreadful,'' writes Ariel Dorfman in his brilliant expl
The City of Angelspossibly the most surreal place in the United Statesis a unique amalgam of past and present, tradition and revolution, dreamscape and reality. Whether in history books o
Anna Quindlen first visited London from a chair in her suburban Philadelphia home. "'The city streets were filled with fog and the cobbled pavers were slightly slick with moisture, so that the man an
