Introduction Hans Christian Andersen Becomes a Novelist in Italy Maya Angelou Loses Her Heart to Ghana W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood Go to War Jane Austen Gets a Whiff of Sea Air (and Seaweed) in Worthing James Baldwin Falls for Paris in the Fall Basho Takes the Narrow Road to the Deep North Charles Baudelaire Fails to Make It to India Elizabeth Bishop Is Bowled Over by Brazil Heinrich Böll Is Enchanted by the Emerald Isle Lewis Carroll Finds Another Wonderland in Russia Agatha Christie Boards the Orient Express Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens Are Far from Idle in Cumbria Joseph Conrad Sees True Horror in the Congo Isak Dinesen in and out of Africa Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Discovers the Perfect Place to Bury Sherlock Holmes F. Scott Fitzgerald Bathes in the Light on the French Riviera Gustave Flaubert Indulges Himself in the Orient Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gets Lost in Italy Graham Greene Learns to Love Life Again in Liberia Hermann Hesse Goes East in Search of Enlightenment Patricia Highsmith Spots a Likely Character in Positano Jamaica and Haiti Cast a Spell on Zora Neale Hurston Jack Kerouac Goes on the Road for the First Time Jack London Pans for Gold in the Klondike Federico García Lorca Takes a Bite of the Big Apple Katherine Mansfield Mines Her Time at a German Spa for Stories Herman Melville Sees the Watery Parts of the World Alexandr Pushkin Convalesces in the Caucasus and the Crimea J.K. Rowling Gets a Train of Thought on the Line from Manchester to London Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Crashes into the Headlines Sam Selvon Sails to England Bram Stoker Stakes Out Dracula in Whitby Sylvia Townsend Warner Finds Poetry in the Essex Marshes Mary Wollstonecraft Soothes a Broken Heart in Scandinavia It's All Greek to Virginia Woolf Selected Bibliography Index Picture Credits.