Some of my deepest understandings of place, my most intense sense of "being" somewhere come neither from actually being there, nor from reading a travel book about the destination.
They come from a novel or short story which, because they set out to tell a story and not to describe a location, actually create a powerful sense of time and place.
At many points in my life I was moved, touched by these non-travel travel books. Here are just four of them:
Travels with a Tangerine
In Travels with a Ta
