"As a guide to far-flung places, Pico Iyer can hardly be surpassed." -
The New Yorker "If Iyer is only a travel writer, then so was Henry James."
-Los Angeles Times "Iyer brings . . . startling freshness to his accounts of travel. . . . Ranks as one of Iyer's best books."
-The Seattle Times "Pico Iyer's remarkable talent is enough justification for going anywhere in the world he fancies." -
Washington Post Book World "Brilliant . . . [Iyer] reflects back at us images from a post-colonial world that is gorgeously complex and stubbornly elusive, yet firmly within his grasp." -
New York Times "Pico Iyer is among the finest travel writers of his generation." -
Time
"Iyer travels to places that many of us have never been to, and may never go to. . . . Iyer writes beautifully, and I was happy to follow wherever his wanderings (physical and spiritual) led." -
San Francisco Chronicle "Pico Iyer is a writer like no other, sui generis, and in this book his particular gifts of thoughtfulness, perception and descriptive power, allied by now with profound experience, reach new levels of grace." -Jan Morris
"Jan Morris has retired; Graham Greene is dead. Pico Iyer is on his way to replacing them... Leave your guidebook behind. Go follow Iyer." -
National Geographic Adventure
"Iyer is an exceptional travel writer, who not only limns Peruvian street maps with clarity and wit, but also offers a compelling rationale for immersing yourself in a foreign environment." -
Gotham "Iyer is a master of the ironic detail, and in these pieces he is able to notice the very objects whose juxtaposition will nail shut the lid of his beautifully constructed metaphorical box. . . . Goes where most of us will not go and returns with the dire details." -
Kirkus Reviews "Hallucinatory and observant, this little book confirms Iyer as one of the most gifted wanderers writing today." -
Seattle Weekly "Mr. Iyer writes with remarkable grace. . . . He is not only wonderful company but will take you on journeys-of place, heart and spirit-you perhaps had not dared imagine." -
Santa Barbara News-Press
"The world's best travel writer." -
The Oregonian
