旅游成瘾的Tom Lutz旅游时随心所欲。这位旅人带着我们一齐驱车走过摩洛哥的blacktop公路，去到阿尔及利亚边界的萨哈拉沙丘，东进安卡拉进入土耳其乔鲁姆省的哈图沙遗址。我们和他一起穿越乌兹别克与吉尔吉斯的高山道路进入中国西部。我们追着他一起到马拉威的一座湖岸边，在与他一同消失在乌克兰与摩尔多瓦间的争议地区。我们跟着他的脚步一起通过斯里兰卡的沼泽地、非洲亚赛拜然的野外、西藏的高原、坦尚尼亚的赌场、罗马尼亚和阿尔巴尼亚的农地与史瓦济兰的中心，在那里，我们看到国王选出了他下一任妻子。在这趟似乎没有尽头的旅途中，我们见证了作者在尝试了解自己为何会继续不断向前，直到天崖海角时，眼里的困惑。我们和他一起认识了许多可能一辈子都不会去的地方，也厘清了心中的困惑。
 
好评
“Move over Pico Iyer: Tom Lutz has returned to town with an irresistible book of true stories about accidental intimacies in unexpected places. His encounters on the road, described in gorgeous prose, are brief but intense. Lighting out for the territories has never seemed so enthralling.”
—Jon Wiener
 
"He rarely travels for work. He simply must keep moving forward. His is an inquisitive and self-depreciating mind reminiscent of Geoff Dyer’s." —The Times Literary Supplement
 
"'We'--you and the reader who identifies--come out of it fine, invigorated, happy to be alive in such an interesting world." —Annie Dillard
“In these provocative and personal travel essays, Tom Lutz walks the seam between memory and landcape, finding traces in the physical that illuminate the inner life. Smart, pointed, funny, and surprising, Lutz's journeys reveal both the writer and the world he navigates, offering not epiphany so much as engagement, which is, of course, the only thing that counts.” —David L. Ulin
 
关于作者
Tom Lutz是Los Angeles Review of Books 的主编，他在加州大学的河滨分校教创意写作。他过去的作品包括：Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums 以及 Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears。