Need a good traveling companion? Good stories reveal as much, or more, about a locale as any map or guidebook. Whereabouts Press is dedicated to publishing books that will enlighten a traveler to the soul of a place.
Our readers — as well as reviewers, academics, booksellers, and librarians — have told us that they like the concept of our traveler's literary series and its affordable and attractive package. We take great care to choose editors who are expert guides to the literary landscape of a country or region so readers of Whereabouts books can travel to their destination in the company of the finest local writers who know it best.
Our contributors include celebrated luminaries and Nobel Prize winners. Many of the stories in our books appear in English for the first time, gaining exposure for some of the world's best writers.
"Coming newly into Spanish, I lacked two essentials — a childhood in the language, which I could never acquire, and a sense of its literature, which I could."
—Alastair Reid, Whereabouts: Notes on Being a Foreigner
Comments about our Travelers' Literary Companions series: "We can hear a country speak and better learn its secrets through the voices of its great writers. . . . an engaging series—a compelling idea, thoughtfully executed." -Isabel Allende
"Each paperback is an anthology of short stories by fine local writers—a unique way to learn about a place." —National Geographic Traveler
"The idea behind this series is simple and elegant: Explore a place like Vietnam or Costa Rica or Prague not through maps or guidebooks but through the writings of that country's best writers." —Publishers Weekly
"A delightful idea most elegantly executed.What could be more instructive for the traveller—and more fun!—than to see a country through the eyes of its own most imaginative writers?" —Jan Morris
"What a good idea this series is!" —John Barth
"Travelers' Literary Companions are the perfect way for visitors to a land to understand its culture. The stories are excellent armchair travel fare for those who cannot go." —The Shoestring Traveler
