A Traveler's Education

About the Book

A Traveler’s Education is a collection of  essays which in the manner of 19th century writers like James and Ruskin reflect the author’s intense “hunger of the eye,” his relish of the unpredictability of travel and of the unexpected ways in which it changes one’s store of life experience.  The education which this book describes has taken  place in the jungle villages of Honduras, around the banquet table of a Palladian villa in the Veneto in Italy, among the ghosts of Berlin, within the opera houses of Europe, amid the stony rubbish of Israel, and elsewhere.

About the Author

William Guy (when he is not traveling) lives and writes in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Gravity’s Revolt, a novel; Defunctive Music, a book of poems;A Traveler’s Education; Magic Casements; and Something Sensational, three books of travel essays. With William Orr he is the author of Living Hope: a Study of the New Testament Theme of Birth from Above. He has completed a translation of The Iliad. He is presently at work on The Lyndoniad, a book of interrelated poems about the year 1968, a long poem containing history (he hopes).