Travels: Collected Writings, 1950-1993

“Bowles is at his best when writing about places. He can evoke a place with a few sure strokes.”
—New York Times

“His work is art. At his best, Bowles has no peer.”
—Time

Travels is a thrilling anthology of the travel writings of Paul Bowles, author of the era-defining post-war novel The Sheltering Sky. The acclaimed essays in Travel—never before collected in a single volume—span more than sixty years and range from Bowles’s early days in Paris to his time spent in Ceylon, Thailand, Kenya, and ...