by Charlie Carroll

Thoroughly absorbing . . . Carroll is a winningly immediate writer, with a deeply personal feel for the memorable, the authentic. His book is studded with great scenes and great moments . . . A great deal of Peaks on the Horizon reads like diving into a bonfire; this is travel-writing of the highest order, simultaneously ambassadorial and conspiratorial. All travelers—armchair or otherwise—are urged not to miss it." —Open Letters Monthly —