Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales From Great Fiction Writers

A collection of original travel stories told by some of the world's best novelists, including Isabel Allende, Keri Hulme, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Téa Obreht, & DBC Pierre.

Exhilaratingly varied in place, plot, & voice, these tales all share one common characteristic: They manifest a passion for the precious gifts that travel confers, from its unexpected but inevitably enriching lessons about other peoples & places to the truths – sometimes uncomfortable but always enlarging – it reveals about ourselves.

"... a brilliant collection of travel stories ... threaded with great warmth, as readers are invited to travel in the company of these famous authors & experience their passions & revelations." Bookseller+Publisher