Chance Particulars: A Writer's Field Notebook for Travelers, Bloggers, Essayists, Memoirists, Novelists, Journalists, Adventurers, Naturalists, Sketchers, and Other Note-Takers and Recorders of Life

The goal of the writer is to live with the keenness of the foreigner. To experience, wide—eyed, the sensations aroused and the events offered up by peculiar surrounds and then to evoke them so brightly on the page that the reader, too, experiences the foreigner’s frisson. A time—honored way this is accomplished is through the keeping of a field notebook—through the faithful recording of the this—and—th...