A Series of Travels: The Atlantic Traveler
I n addition to authors, there are also book series on traveling that have ended up on my shelves. During the 1980s and 90s, Atlantic Monthly Press published a great collection of adventures simply called Traveler. I've never been able to find a complete list of all the books but seems there about fifteen total. Here are mine. 1. Night Train to Turkestan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road , Stuart Stevens (1994). Maybe one of the funniest, irreverent travel books I've ever read. In an attempt to retrace the 1936 journey of two famous adventurers (Peter Flemming and Ella Maillart) from Beijing to the far western city of Kashgar, Stevens sets out with three American companions. His traveling companions include Mark Salzman who wrote his own account of life in China ( Iron and Silk, to be mentioned in a later list). They travel through a surreal landscape on crowded, crude buses and trains meeting one unusual...