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by The Washington Post as “creative, humane, graceful.” His essays, collected in The Essays of E. B. White, and the portrait he draws of one of the world’s most exciting cities in Here Is New York, will delight any reader who is searching for a backdrop to Steinbach’s perceptive, elegant, journalistic prose.

Of course, diving headfirst into the vast wealth of travel literature is another option for Steinbach’s “curious and courageous reader.” In this case, it would seem only appropriate to begin with Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, his slender memoir that is as much about Paris in the 1920s as it is about the Americans who encounter it.

A more contemporary piece of travel writing, Frances Mayes’s Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy weaves together one woman’s story of leaving the familiarity of her home in California to renovate a Tuscan villa. Through the inclusion of her own journal entries, local recipes, and reflections on the Italian countryside as a food writer and journalist, Mayes provides another perspective on the essence of northern Italy as seen through the eyes of an awed and inspired traveler.

Table of Contents

Cover

About the Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction

Paris

1. The Novice

2. Woman in the Hat

3. At Sainte-Chapelle

4. Fellow Travelers

5. Five Extraordinary Days

London

6. The Sloane Street Club

7. Love Letters

8. Ladies of Small Means

Oxford

9. Up at Oxford

10. A Cotswold Encounter

11. The Dancing Professor

Italy

12. Mother of the Bride

13. We Open in Venice

14. Spanish Steps

15. Jane Eyre in Siena

16. Past Perfect

Illustration Credits

A Reader’s Guide

A Conversation with Alice Steinbach

Questions for Discussion

Suggested Reading