Not Now, Voyager

Ever since the explorations of Marco Polo and the travels of Montaigne, a lively dialogue has persisted about the pros and cons of travel— its excitement and novelties, its perils and misadventures. Lynne Sharon Schwartz joins this dialogue with a memoir that raises both serious and amusing questions about travel: She goes to Rome as a young woman and ponders the difference between ignorance and innocence; she ventures to Jamaica and witnesses acute political and social unrest; and she takes …