"Setterberg has compiled an armchair traveler's delight of over 100 essays and short excerpts on the human experience in the United States as seen by the contemporary traveler. Charles Kuralt, Andrei Codrescu, Jan Morris, Jonathan Raban, Philip Caputo, and many others write about the Westminster Kennel Club dog show in New York, aloneness in a New Mexican wilderness, diamond hunting in Murfreesboro, TN, and caving in West Virginia. From awe-inspiring natural beauty to overwhelming commercialism, these sometimes humorous, often poignant essays evoke a country and people of variety, individuality, and familiarity. For all travel collections." --Library Journal