"…I know well the delectable
thrill of moving into a new house somewhere
altogether else, in somebody else’s
country, where the climate is different,
the food is different, the light is
different, where the mundane preoccupations
of life at home don’t seem to
apply and it is even fun to go shopping."
— Jan Morris
We’ve all dreamt of escaping
to a House Somewhere. In this collection
some of the finest names in contemporary
travel writing reveal the perils and
pleasures of exchanging the familiar
for the foreign.
Isabel Allende discovers love and paradise
in California, Pico Iyer finds home in
Japan amidst the alien and indecipherable,
and a dank barge on the Seine opens up
a new side of Paris for Mort Rosenblum.
Revealing the flip side to the dream,
relocating to the juicy heart of New
York proves fiery for Lily Brett, Chris
Stewart is frightened for his life
in Andalucia, and the plumbing in William
Dalrymple’s rooftop Delhi flat
is held to ransom by his water-conserving
landlady.
Original Stories by:
Isabel Allende, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Jan Morris, Rolf Potts, Mort Rosenbaum,
Jeffrey Taylor, Errol Trzebinski, Simon Winchester.
Selected writings by:
Vida Adamoli, Lily Brett, Tony Cohan, William Dalrymple, Amitav Ghos, Carla
Grissmann, James Hamilton-Paterson, Annie Hawes, Peter Hesller, Pico Iyer,
Alex Kerr, Frances Mayes, Peter Mayle, Tim Parks, Chris Stewart, Emma Tennant,
Paul Theroux, Nial Williams and Christine Breen.
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