Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction
Acknowledgments
A is for adventure
Afghanistan : graveyard of empires
Africa : the greenest continent
Albania
All set for Alaska
Amazonia
American girls
An Anglophile's literary pilgrimage
Approaching Appalachia
Arabia deserta
Armenia
Australia, the land of Oz
AZ you like it
The Baltic states
Baltimore
Berlin
Borneo and Sarawak
Boston : beans, Bird, and the Red Sox
Botswana
Brazil
Burmese days
Cambodia
Canada, O Canada
Cavorting through the Caribbean
Chesapeake Bay
China : the middle kingdom
Climb ev'ry mountain
Comics with a sense of place
Congo : from colonialism to catastrophe
Corfu
Cornwall's charms
Corsica
Definitely Detroit
Egypt
Entering England
Ethiopia, or as we used to say, Abyssinia!
Explaining Europe : the grand tour
Explorers
Frolicking in Finland
Galloping through the Galapagos
Guernica
Guernsey : history in fiction
Hail, Colombia!
Hawaii
Hiking the (fill in the blank) trail
Hollandays
Hong Kong
Iceland
In the footsteps of..
Indicative of Indonesia
Inside the Inside Passage
Iran
Ireland : beyond Joyce, Behan, Beckett, and Synge
It seemed like a good idea at the time
It's Chile today
Japanese journeys
Jordan
Just so much Greek to me
Kenya
Kiwis forever! : New Zealand in print
Korea
North and South
Laos
Las Vegas
Leavened in Lebanon
Liberia
Los Angeles : city of angels
Lyme Regis
The Maine chance
Making tracks by train
Malaysia
Martha's Vineyard
A mention of the Middle East
Messing around on Malta
Miami and environs
Naples
Nebraska : the big empty
New Guinea
New York City : a taste of the Big Apple
Newfoundland
News from N'Orleans
Niagara Falls
Nigeria
North African notes
Norway : the land of the midnight sun
Oceania, or miles of isles
Ohioana
Oxford
Parma
Patagonia
Peace Corps memories
Peru(sing) Peru
Philadelphia
Polish up your Polish
Postcards from Mexico
Provence and the south of France
Roman holiday
Row, row, row your boat
The Sahara : sand between your toes
Saint Petersburg/Leningrad/Saint Petersburg
San Francisco
Scenes from Sri Lanka
Scotland : more than haggis, kilts, and Ian Rankin
See the sea
Seriesously..
Sheltering in the Shetlands
Siberian chills
Sicily
So we/I bought (or built) a house in..
Sojourns in South Asia
South Africa
Spain
Star trekkers
Swede(n), isn't it?
Texas two-step (after a Bob Wills song)
Thai tales
Timbuktu and beyond
To the ends of the earth : north and south
Travel to imaginary places
Travelers' tales in verse
Turkish delights
Veni, vidi, Venice
Verona
Vienna
Vietnam
Wales welcomes you
Walk right in
Water, water everywhere
We'll always have Paris
Where in the world do these books belong?
WY ever not?
Zambia
Zipping through Zimbabwe/roaming Rhodesia

Includes both nonfiction and fiction reading recommendations for armchair or "real" travelers. This librarian famous for reader's advisory covers places as diverse as Afghanistan, Appalachia, Arizona, Baltimore, Boston, Burma, Congo, Corfu, Detroit, England, Finland, the Galapagos, Guernica, Hawaii, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Jordan, Korea, Law Vegas, Los Angeles, Maine, Malaysia, Martha's Vineyard, Miami, Nebraska, New York City, New Orleans, Niagara Falls, Norway, Ohio, Parma, Patagonia, Peru, Philadelphia, Poland, Provence, the Sahara, San Francisco, Siberia, Spain, Texas, Vienna, Vietnam, Wales, and many other real and imaginary places.

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