Dispatches, diaries, memoirs, and letters by African-American travelers in search of home, justice, and adventure-from the Wild West to Australia. [A Stranger in the Village] will explode any lingering notions that travel writing is a white writer's game.-Bob Sipchen, Los Angeles Times

"[A] remarkable anthology." -Victoria Valentine, Emerge

"An intelligent, authoritative collection for anyone interested in travel writing, memoirs, or African-American history." -Condé Nast Traveler

"[James] Baldwin's astute observation that 'this world is white no longer, and it will never be white again,' could not be more obvious in this collection." -The Miami Herald

"A thinking person's travel anthology." -Chicago Sun-Times