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. 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