Travel to one of the most dynamic cities in the world in the company of its finest writers. The stories in this volume will take you on a personal odyssey through the city’s rich past to its dynamic present. Arranged by the areas of Amsterdam they illuminate, these stories offer up a rich literary banquet to the traveler who wishes to experience the character and soul of this great city.

Climb the Andes Mountains, navigate the great River Plate, traverse the expansive plains of the Pampas, and explore the ever-changing landscape of the Patagonia as it extends south to Tierra del Fuego, with Argentina’s literary greats including Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, and Luisa Valenzuela. Seasoned travelers will recognize their favorite haunts and those yet unfamiliar with the region will long to make the journey.

Journey down under in the company of Australia’s finest writers. From stories of survival in the bush to vacationing at the beach, from immigrants adjusting to the new land to aboriginal displacement to the city, these twenty-five enthralling stories allow the reader to cover this large continent in a most imaginative way.

Brazil is the largest and arguably the most dynamic country in South America. Each of the myriad cultures is so distinct that it would be impossible to characterize Brazil with one voice. Here is a collection of nearly forty stories drawn from all corners of that vast land, inlcuding the Amazon and its two dominant cities, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

The twenty stories in Chile: A Traveler’s Literary Companion—most of which are available here for the first time in English—reveal that the nation that gave birth to two poets who won Nobel prizes in literature is also the home of many world-class prose writers. This collection evokes the diversity of the country’s landscape and the complexity of its recent history.

China’s cities are growing at a truly amazing pace and China includes stories of a country and people in conflict set in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Taipei. But leave the city and travel to the idyllic mountains and streams of West Hunan; a picturesque water town and the silkworm-raising country of Zhejiang; the high plateau of western Sichuan where Tibetan culture intermingles with that of Han Chinese; the primitive vitality of the sorghum fields of Gaomi county in Shandong; a Henan village struggling with poverty; and the pastoral world of the northeast province of Heilongjiang.

Journey into the Costa Rican imagination through twenty-six remarkable stories, selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler. Here, for the first time in English, the best of Costa Rica’s writers conjure the country’s allure and vitality, its coffee fields and palm groves, cicadas and songbirds, shrouded mountains and blazing savannas, while telling stories unique to Costa Rican life.

Travel to Cuba in the company of its finest writers and gain an understanding of its remarkable mystique. The twenty-one stories in this collection—some of which appear in English for the first time—will take you on an odyssey through the country’s rich past to its dynamic present, where it is poised at the brink of immense change. Arranged by the areas of Cuba they illuminate, these stories offer up a rich literary banquet.

A literary tour de force and a Tour de France, beginning in Paris and traveling to Provence, Brittany, Normandy, and the Jura. Walk down twisty Rue Laferrière in Paris, take a spin on a carousel, eavesdrop on a Jewish funeral party, and meet a pint-sized book thief and a gritty ghetto gang. These charming stories are often funny, occasionally surreal, and always compelling.

This book isn’t the usual kind of book about food. It has no restaurant reviews, and very few recipes. You won’t hear about that darling place in Dordogne, but you may learn how to slice a cuttlefish. This is about food as experience. And who better to describe that experience than the French?

Discover Greece—a country that has inspired centuries of travel—through its best modern writers. Against a superb landscape of islands, rocks, caves, villages, windmills, vineyards, cities, ports, beaches, and ruins, all bathed in the rich light of the Mediterranean, these twenty-four stories draw from the long oral and written evolution of the Greek literary tradition.

The latest book in our acclaimed series of literary travel guides brings together a smorgasbord of short fiction from one of the world’s most diverse, multicultural, and storied civilizations: India.
India: A Traveler’s Literary Companion features more than a dozen short stories from some of India’s best writers, collectively offering an insightful portrait of the beauty and complexity of Indian landscape, culture, and society.