Salon Wanderlust for April 1, 1997 -- My Best Holiday Experience by Pico Iyer ...

This world-wanderer masterfully tracks the intricacies of the dance of East and West.

Tropical Classical Essays from Several Directions By Pico Iyer Alfred A. Knopf, $25 ISBN 0679454322 Review by Bruce Tierney The cross-pollination of cultures has long been a theme of Pico Iyer's works: a Western writer's affair with a Japanese housewife (The Lady and the Monk); an American journalist's ill-starred romance with a Havana senorita of questionable repute (Cuba and the Night); a ...