This collection offers two dozen essays and sketches about one of the
passions of Salter's life, travel, a subject beloved by writers across
the centuries. Over twenty years of skiing, hiking, climbing -- from
Colorado to Japan to the Tyrol, from Austria and Switzerland to Germany
and France, Salter is an engaging companion sharing his great enthusiasm
and adventures. James Salter's novels and volumes of memoir have been
widely celebrated and he is now recognized as one of America's most
important writers. Susan Sontag once remarked, [Salter] is among the
very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose
as yet unpublished books I wait for impatiently.