This book is about a sense of place – discovering the exotic at home and uncovering home in the far-flung land. Why go anywhere when you are already there?

In this extraordinary chronicle, journalist and travel writer Richard Moore takes us to places near and far – from his South Carolina home to the outer reaches of Greece, from exuberant Paris to the more sublime territory of New York.

Along the way, Moore misses no detail of description; he introduces us to characters – somnolent New York cab drivers, Parisian pranksters, a fugitively dreaming artist, a team of visionary innmakers, even guardian angels – who help him discover the exotic at home and uncover home in the far-flung land.

They help him – and us – understand what a sense of place is all about. In so doing, these lighthearted journeys set the soul to dancing, unless the soul prefers to sing.