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Voyager : travel writings / Russell Banks.

by Banks, Russell, 1940-2023-

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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]

Banks, Russell, 1940- -- Travel.

Banks, Russell, 1940- -- Relations with women.

Voyages and travels.

Novelists, American -- 21st century -- Biography.

Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.

9780061857676 (hc.)

272 p. ; 24 cm.

Voyager -- Pilgrim's regress -- Primal dreams -- House of slaves -- The last birds of paradise -- Innocents abroad -- Last days feeding frenzy -- The wrong stuff -- Fox and whale, priest and angel -- Old goat.

The award-winning novelist takes us on some of his most memorable journeys in this collection of travel essays. Now in his mid-seventies, Russell Banks has indulged his wanderlust for more than half a century. Since childhood he has "longed for escape, for rejuvenation, for wealth untold, for erotic and narcotic and sybaritic fresh starts, for high romance, mystery and intrigue." The longing for escape has taken him from the "bright green islands and turquoise seas" of the Caribbean to peaks in the Himalayas, the Andes, and beyond. Banks shares highlights from his travels: interviewing Fidel Castro in Cuba; motoring to a hippie reunion with college friends in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; eloping to Edinburgh to marry his fourth wife, Chase; driving a sunset-orange metallic Hummer down Alaska's Seward Highway. In each of these remarkable essays, Banks considers his life and the world. Recalling his trips to the Caribbean in the title essay, Banks dissects his relationships with the four women who would become his wives. In the Himalayas, he embarks on a different quest: "One climbs a mountain, not to conquer it, but to be lifted like this away from the earth up into the sky," he explains. Pensive, frank, beautiful, and engaging, this book brings together the social, the personal, and the historical, opening a path into the heart and soul of this revered writer. Born in Newton, Massachusetts, Russell Banks is a writer of fiction, essays and poetry. His novels include Continental Drift, Rule of the Bone, Cloudsplitter, The Sweet Hereafter, and Affliction. The latter two novels were each made into feature films. He is the author of the essay collection Dreaming up America.

Travel memoirs.

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