Washington Irving is one of America"s most enduring, and beloved authors. For nothing else, people know Washington Irving as the author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Tales of a Traveler was written in 1824, under the pseudonym "Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." One of Irving"s better-known pseudonyms was Diedrich Knickerbocker, a name inextricably linked to New York City, and to today"s New York Knicks. Tales of a Traveler tells a number of humorous stories and anecdotes about exotic dinners and the European travels of Geoffrey Crayon and his colorful relatives. Full of dry wit, Tales of a Traveler will please readers today as much as it pleased them in the early 19th century.