Heart's Desire by Edward Hoagland
A collection of essays from an American novelist, essayist and travel writer whose work regularly appears in top American magazines. These essays are wide-ranging in their subject-matter, including cities and wildernesses, people and animals, travels and encounters, arguments and reflections. Edward Hoagland's novels include Cat Man and Seven Rivers West, and his two travel books are Notes from the Century Before and African Calliope.