With the same perceptiveness used to create great fiction, novelists can also craft powerful travel writing. Capturing the essence of such locales as Iceland, Argentina, and Rome, the 32 selections in this anthology not surprisingly include Peter Matthiessen ("In Bear Trap Canton"), Pico Iyer ("When Things Make No Sense"), and Jan Morris ("The Way to Hav"), but also Alexander McCall Smith, Isabelle Allende, Frances Mayes, Tea Obreht, Keri Hulme, DBC Pierre, and Joyce Carol Oates, who reflects on San Quentin Prison.