Probably the finest travel book ever written by an American is Walden, though Thoreau only went a mile out of town.


Chapter 11, Writing About Places: The Travel Article, p. 91. - On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976)


Probably the finest travel book ever written by an American is Walden, though Thoreau only went a mile out of town.

Probably the finest travel book ever written by an American is Walden, though Thoreau only went a mile out of town.

Probably the finest travel book ever written by an American is Walden, though Thoreau only went a mile out of town.

Probably the finest travel book ever written by an American is Walden, though Thoreau only went a mile out of town.