An excellent, well-written piece of history by one of my favorite nonfiction writers, who I was able to meet and listen to while he was actually finishing up this volume. Concise and straightforward, he avoids over dramatization in the telling, while ably detailing the times and passions involved...
This was exactly the palate-cleansing travel memoir that I needed to recover from the barren gloom of Theater of Fish. One For the Road is the second travel memoir I've read about Australia, and the second one I've loved. I'm starting to think I'd love anything Tony Horwitz writes (write faster!...