Life in Transition is about place, change, and relationship. Gilden's beautifully written essays offer glimpses into locations as remote as Turkey and as familiar as a walk in a small town. And while...

During the 1970s about 20,000 Americans visited the Soviet Union each year on highly structured guided tours. Very few chose to travel independently, and almost no U.S. tourists camped for six weeks,...

Tea & Bee's Milk: Our Year in a Turkish Village is the story of two people who took a chance on life, quit their jobs, sold their house and car, and took off to live for a year in a tiny village by...