This autobiographical memoir combines European reporting, observations on interwar politics and culture, and the author's own coming-of-age memories. Through those personal experiences, it builds a portrait of the intellectual landscape of the 1930s.

Memory of travel and reporting becomes a portrait of an era itself.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh turns her 1931 flight to the Far East into a delicate travel narrative about route, landscape, and cultural surprise. The aviation experience itself becomes a form of reflective literature.

A journey through the air opens the eye to unfamiliar worlds.