Wonderlands : good gay travel writing / edited by Raphael Kadushin.

Brief bio-bibliographical notes on contributors: p. 275-278.

Introduction / Raphael Kadushin -- The salmon capital of the world / Mack Friedman -- When will you be here again? / Michael Lowenthal -- Girona / Colm Tóibín -- Everywhere / J. S. Marcus -- Mohammad and the island in Syria / Robert Tewdwr Moss -- Reading the body / Boyer Rickel -- Destino / Rigoberto González -- Tea with Paul Bowles: from a Tangier diary, 1991 / Edward Field -- An untropical island / Bruce Shenitz -- Faux amis / Brian Bouldrey -- In Friesland / Raphael Kadushin -- My father-in-law has two names / David Masello -- Goodbye Vienna / Wayne Koestenbaum -- No man's land / Matthew Link -- Death in the desert / Edmund White -- Do you join in singing the same bigness? / Philip Gambone -- 1001 beds / Tim Miller -- Aerogrammes / Alistair McCartney -- Crows in the hair / Mitch Cullin.

This book's contributors are a mix of established gay writers and the best of the new generation. Focusing on the visceral thrill of travel, they set out all over the world and always find something unexpected: love, passion, history, themselves. The result is dynamic writing that will spur readers to book their next flight, or at least get them dreaming of other places. Mack Friedman sets off into the deceptively butch wilds of Alaska. Robert Tewdwr Moss treks through the back roads of Syria and his own version of Arabian nights. Colm Tóibín discovers a Spanish Brigadoon and Edward Field has tea with Paul Bowles. For Wayne Koestenbaum, Vienna is a city of both high and low culture, and for Philip Gambone, Asia becomes a place of second chances. Raphael Kadushin settles into the ethereal sun of a Dutch spring. Michael Lowenthal remembers a jarring encounter in the Scottish Highlands, and Edmund White, in a classic of elegiac travel writing, recounts his harrowing drive through the Sahara with a man he loved.--Publisher's description (adapted).