An imaginary traveler describes the sights, sounds and smells, the people and the places encountered on the fabled journey from Paris to Istanbul. Profusely ill

A humiliating military defeat by Bismarck's Germany, a brutal siege, and a bloody uprising—Paris in 1871 was a shambles, and the question loomed, "Could this

The Writer's Journey invites you to follow in the footsteps of some of the world’s most famous authors on the travels that inspired their greatest works.