Come celebrate the launch of this penultimate collection of true travel tales culled from the best-of-the-best Solas Award-winning stories published by Travelers’ Tales over the last ten years. These journeys are powerful, moving testaments to the richness of our world, its cultures, people, and places.I will be reading from my Amazonian story “Fish Trader Ray” alongside star travel writers Erin Byrne, Michael Shapiro, Brad Newsham, and others.

Friday, November 10 @ 7 pm at Book Passage in Corte Madera, California

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In this book, readers will:

Deposit a loved one’s ashes in a Bolivian River

Find the Celtic soul you never knew you had in rural Ireland

Grope through the maze of sorcery and madness in Cameroon

Rediscover your sense of self on a return to Russia after many years away

Follow the spirit of John Wesley Powell down the Grand Canyon in Arizona

Engage loss and the specter of death in Mexico

Face your deepest fears alone in an Alaskan winter

Encounter the realities of prostitution in Thailand

Absorb the rhythms and soul of Flamenco in Spain

Fall in love with a home in rural France and make it your own

…and much more