New Yorker article writer and writer of The Collection Book calls for readers on a string of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty, sophisticated, and far-flung travel publication.

In this irresistible assortment of adventures far and near, Orlean conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, through the heart from the African music picture in Paris towards the World Taxidermy Championships in Springfield, Illinois-and also into her own apartment, where she imagines an extremely famous houseguest benefiting from about My Sort of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who’s Been Everywhere her hospitality.

With Orlean as direct, lucky readers partake in every types of armchair activity. They will climb Mt. Fuji and encounter a hike most intrepid Japanese have never attempted; play ball with Cuba’s Small Leaguers, promising young athletes born in a nation where football and politics are inextricably intertwined; trawl Icelandic waters with Keiko, everyone’s preferred whale as he tries to create it on his own; stay awhile in Midland, Texas, hometown of George W. Bush, a location where oil period is the only time that matters; explore the halls of a fresh York City school so stressed it’s referred to as “Horror High”; and stalk caged tigers in Jackson, New Jersey, a suburban city with one of the highest concentrations of tigers per square mile all over the world.

Vivid, funny, unconventional, and incomparably entertaining, Susan Orlean’s writings for THE BRAND NEW Yorker have happy visitors for over ten years. My Kind of Place is an inimitable treat by among America’s top literary journalists.