Tom Swick

I chose the books, in part, because they all deserve a wider audience.

Nicolas Bouvier has recently been discovered by English-speaking readers – but not enough of them.

Bruce Chatwin is well-known but this is one of his least-known books.

A Wider World: Portraits in an Adolescence -Kate Simon

And poor Kate Simon – one of the great American travel writers – has been almost forgotten. All three of them had a remarkable talent for describing and capturing scenes and feelings and experiences.

Biography

Tom Swick’s work has been included four times in The Best American Travel Writing anthologies, and he authored two books: Unquiet Days: At Home in Poland and A Way to See the World: From Texas to Transylvania with a Maverick Traveler.

Born in Pennsylvania, Tom grew up in New Jersey and has lived and worked in England, France, Greece and Poland. (He speaks French and Polish.) He worked for the Trenton Times and the Providence Journal before moving to the South Florida Sun Sentinel where, over nearly two decades, he developed a reputation as a “writers’ travel editor.” Tom went freelance in 2008, writing for Afar, Smithsonian and The Oxford American, as well as other publications.