"Kurt Caswell is an ideal traveling partner: humane, knowledgeable, and profoundly empathetic. These essays take you from Japan to Morocco to the American West, among other places, and there's not one that doesn't leave you feeling both smarter and more curious. Anyone who loves travel, whether literal or literary, will be enriched and moved by this fine book."-Tom Bissell, author ... Read moreof Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation "A fine lyric nerve animates all of Caswell's prose. The work is alert, tuned in high degree to the sensory reality of place, romantic but also reflective upon its romanticism
a pleasure and a consistent instruction to read."-Sven Birkerts, author of The Art of Time in Memoir "Kurt Caswell is an intrepid and deeply sensitive traveler, as well as an engaging writer. He finds fascination and adventure wherever he goes, whether in Iceland or Morocco or Japan, or closer to home in Nebraska and Idaho, and he makes the reader eager to accompany him."-Lynne Sharon Schwartz, author of Disturbances in the Field Show Less