Notes From The Century Before

“This book is as remarkable as the landscape it describes.” –Newsweek “One of the most interesting, revealing, and delightful travel books I have read.”–The New York Review of Books

“His journal is about tangles and unrealized ambitions … and he understands wonderfully what to make of what he sees and hears… . A strange and beautiful book.”–The Washington Post

“Hoagland builds up an extensive, vivid picture of a place and people and, like all good travel writers, makes the reader want to start right out over his tracks.”–The Atlantic Monthly

“A beautiful book: so sharp and persistent in rendering the visible world, and yet so strangely wild with feeling.”–Philip Roth

“A spellbinding document.”–George Plimpton

Edward Hoagland has written more than twenty books, including the travel memoirs “African Calliope” and “Notes from the Century Before”, the essay collections “Walking the Dead Diamond River” and “The Tugman’s Passage”, and the novels “Cat Man” and “Seven Rivers West.” He worked in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus while attending Harvard, and later traveled the world writing for a number of national magazines including “Harper’s” and “Esquire.” He has received numerous prestigious literary awards, and taught at many American colleges and universities. He is a native New Yorker.

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