"You can plow straight through a Travelers' Tales anthology, or pick and peck at the delectable bits of poetry and prose scattered among the more substantial stories. Either way, you will be hungry for more." --Sky (Delta Airlines), September 1997

"Like gourmet chefs sampling the produce in an overstocked French market, the editors of Travelers' Tales pick, sift, and prod their way through the weighty shelves of contemporary travel writing, rejecting the second rate and creaming off the very best. They have impeccable taste -- a very welcome addition to the genre." --William Dalrymple, author of City of Djinns and In Xanadu

"Sterling's themes are nothing less than human universality, passion and necessity, all told in stories straight from the gut." --Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior and China Men

"The Travelers' Tales series should become required reading for anyone visiting a foreign country who wants to truly step off the tourist track and experience another culture, another place, first-hand." --Nancy Paradis, St. Petersburg Times

"The Travelers' Tales series aims to convey the excitement of voyaging through exotic territory with a vivacity that guidebooks can only hint at." --Millennium Whole Earth Catalog

"I'm thrilled to see a publication such as Travelers' Tales finally available to those of us who, when we're deciding how to approach our journeys, want something other than the encyclopedic formulae of even the best travel guides." --Scott Doggett, Los Angeles Times

"A revolutionary new style of travel guidebooks..." --New York Times News Service

"For travelers who want a wider introduction to a country and its culture, Travelers' Tales is a valuable addition to any pre-departure reading list." --Tony Wheeler, publisher, Lonely Planet Publications

"These anthologies seem destined to be a success.... Travelers' Tales promises to be a useful and enlightening addition to the travel bookshelves. By collecting and organizing such a wide range of literature, O'Reilly and Habegger are providing a real service for those who enjoy reading first-person accounts of a destination before seeing it for themselves." --Bill Newlin, publisher, Moon Publications