Preface: The Importance of Elsewhere
Abbreviations of Book Titles
1. Travel in Brief
2. The Navel of the World
3. The Pleasures of Railways
4. Murphy's Rules of Travel
5. Travelers on Their Own Books
6. How Long Did the Traveler Spend Traveling?
7. The Things That They Carried
8. Fears, Neuroses, and Other Conditions
9. Travelers Who Never Went Alone
10. Travel as an Ordeal
11. English Travelers on Escaping England
12. When You're Strange
13. It Is Solved by Walking
14. Travel Feats
15. Staying home
16. Imaginary Journeys
17. Everything Is Edible Somewhere
18. Rosenblum's Rules of Reporting
19. Perverse Pleasures of the Inhospitable
20. Imaginary People
21. Writers and the Places They Never Visited
22. Traveler's Bliss
23. Classics of a Sense of Place
24. Evocative Name, Disappointing Place
25. Dangerous, happy, Alluring
26. Five Travel Epiphanies
27. The Essential Tao of Travel
Acknowledgments
