Essays of Travel
Essays of Travel
Stevenson doesn't simply describe places, he transforms them into states of mind. These essays, drawn from decades of wandering through England, Europe, and America, capture something most travel writing misses: the peculiar magic of being a stranger in the world. His prose has the quality of light through water, everything seems sharper and slightly strange at once. Whether he's tramping through the English countryside at midnight or watching fog roll into Monterey Bay, Stevenson finds in travel not answers but questions, not destinations but perpetual motion. His companions along the way, a donkey in Burgundy, fellow tramps on the open road, an old man fishing in a Norwegian fjord, become mirrors for his own restless curiosity. These are essays for anyone who has ever felt the pull of the unknown and wanted to read someone who could make that feeling exact.
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