Description
About the Author
Kurt Caswellis a writer and professor of creative writing and literature in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, where he teaches intensive field courses on writing and leadership. His books includeIceland Summer,Laika's Window: The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog,Getting to Grey Owl: Journeys on Four Continents,In the Sun's House: My Year Teaching on the Navajo Reservation, andAn Inside Passage, which won the 2008 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize. His essays have appeared inISLE, Isotope, Matter, Ninth Letter, Orion, River Teeth, and theAmerican Literary Review. He lives in Lubbock, Texas.
Reviews
"Kurt Caswell is an ideal traveling partner: humane, knowledgeable, and profoundly empathetic. These essays take you from Japan to Morocco to the American West, among other places, and there's not one that doesn't leave you feeling both smarter and more curious. Anyone who loves travel, whether literal or literary, will be enriched and moved by this fine book."-Tom Bissell, author of Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation "A fine lyric nerve animates all of Caswell's prose. The work is alert, tuned in high degree to the sensory reality of place, romantic but also reflective upon its romanticism--a pleasure and a consistent instruction to read."-Sven Birkerts, author of The Art of Time in Memoir "Kurt Caswell is an intrepid and deeply sensitive traveler, as well as an engaging writer. He finds fascination and adventure wherever he goes, whether in Iceland or Morocco or Japan, or closer to home in Nebraska and Idaho, and he makes the reader eager to accompany him."-Lynne Sharon Schwartz, author of Disturbances in the Field
Book Information
ISBN 9781595342614
Author Kurt Caswell
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Trinity University Press,U.S.
Publisher Trinity University Press,U.S.
Weight(grams) 368g