A wildly diverse, exhilarating -- and inspiring -- collection of traveler's tales, organized as a book of days. Each entry features a well-selected passage from writers and travelers, classic and modern, including Lawrence Durrell, Paul Theroux, Jon Krakauer, Mary Morris, Peter Matthiessen, Tim Cahill, Jan Morris, Richard Halliburton and Isabella Bird.  (TVL15, $14.95)