Table of Contents; Introduction; Working-Class Hero; Yearning for the Sun; A Long Way from Home; The Redmond O'Hanlon Show; At Home with the Spirits; A Hop Across the Pond; Dark Star Shining; The World for a Song; When Worlds Collude; Europe Through an Open Door; A World of Wonders; Strange Travel Suggestions; Through Love and War; Southern Exposure; Giving It All Away; Along the Border; The Snow Leopard; The End of the World; Afterword; Appreciations; Acknowledgments; Photograph Credits.;Great writers inspire readers to head out in search of foreign sunsets, but in this instance, they inspired travel writer Michael Shapiro to head out for the great writers themselves. A Sense of Place is one writer's journey to visit all the heroes who have motivated him? to pack a pen and toothbrush, to find out where they live, why they chose the place, and how it influences their writing. In each scene, readers, writers, and travelers are given a glimpse of the locale and surroundings of the writer: Simon Winchester's Massachusetts, Redmond O'Hanlon's London, Jan Morris's Wale.