The Tao of Travel

Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban, copyright © 1996 by Jonathan Raban. Used by permission of Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West, copyright 1940, 1941, renewed © 1968, 1969 by Rebecca West. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

Excerpts from Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt, translated by Francis Steegmuller. Copyright © Francis Steegmuller, 1972. Reprinted with permission of Mcintosh & Otis, Inc. All rights reserved.

"Happiness," translated by Stephen Kessler, copyright © 1999 by Maria Kodama; translation copyright © 1999 by Stephen Kessler, from Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Alexander Coleman. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., and of Stephen Kessler.

In Trouble Again, copyright © 1988 by Redmond O'Hanlon. Used by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

"Madly Singing in the Mountains" by Po Chu-i. From Chinese Poems, Arthur Waley, translator. George Allen & Unwin, London, 1946. Copyright © by permission of the Arthur Waley Estate.

Shishmaref Day School Cookbook recipes are reprinted by kind permission of the Shishmaref School, Shishmaref, Alaska.

The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen, copyright © 1978 by Peter Matthiessen. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

South from Granada: A Sojourn in Southern Spain by Gerald Brenan. Published in America by Farrar, Straus & Cudahy and Kodansha International. Copyright © 1957, 1985 by Gerald Brenan. Used by permission of the author's estate and his agent, Robin Straus Agency, Inc.

Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue by Paul Bowles. Copyright © 1957, 1963 by Paul Bowles. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

The Travels of Marco Polo, translated with an introduction by Ronald Lathem (Penguin Classics, 1958). Copyright © Ronald Lathem, 1958. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.

Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss. English translation © 1973 by Jonathan Cape, Ltd. Originally published in French as Tristes Tropiques, copyright © 1955 by Librairie Plon. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., for Librairie Plon.

The Valley of the Assassins by Dame Freya Stark, Modern Library edition, Random House. Excerpts are reprinted by permission of John Murray Publishing.

"Water is taught by thirst" is reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson, ed. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

The following excerpts are reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, all rights reserved:

Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux. Copyright © 2003 by Paul Theroux.

Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings, 1985-2000 by Paul Theroux. Copyright © 2000 by Paul Theroux.

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux. Copyright © 2008 by Paul Theroux.

The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux. Copyright © 1979 by Cape Cod Scriveners Co.

The following images were found through commons.wikimedia.org:

Bowles: Mt. Meredith Romani looking northwest, 1920, AWM B02979.

Fielding: Departure from Lisbon for Brazil, the East Indies and America, engraving, c. 1592, by Theodor de Bry (Flemish, 1528-1598), illustration in America Tertia Pars. Location: Service Historique de la Marine, Vincennes.

Johnson: Illustrations de Voyage autour du monde. Auteur: George Anson. Édi-teur: Henri-Albert Gosse et Compagnie (Genève), 1750.

Lévi-Strauss: Llamas traversing the Andes laden with silver. Exploration of the Valley of Amazon, vol. 2, by Lieutenant Lardner Gibbon, USN (1853).

Stark: Prise d'Alamût (1256). Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France. Départe-ment des Manuscrits. Division orientale. Author: Sayf al-Vâhidî. Hérât. Afghanistan. Date: 1430.

Stevenson: Robert Louis Stevenson's birthday fete in Samoa. Image from Talofa, Samoa: A Summer Sail to an Enchanted Isle (1896) by Charles S. Greene. San Francisco News Co.

Waugh: The Temple of Soleb, Ethiopia (1862?), Francis Frith. New York Public Library Digital Gallery. Image ID: 76483.