"Fathom", 6/20/13 "[A] charming account of what happened when [Gross] let himself wander.""DreamPlanGo.com, 6/18/13" "Five Must-Read Travel Books for Summer Vacations" roundup, 6/18: "Provides inspiration for letting go of the guidebook and exploring a destination by feeling, rather than checklist.""Toronto Globe and Mail", 6/15/13 "Matt Gross gets around."AmateurTraveler.com", "7/6/13 "Gross provided innumerable adventures and to listen to them unwind was a rare treasure...Pick up this book. Read it cover to cover. Recommend it to your friends.""Loveland Reporter-Herald", 7/9/13 "Provides insights and adventures from [Gross's] lifetime of travels.""Arrive", July/August 2013 "Gross goes beyond his travel articles to reveal the loneliness, fears, failures and triumphs of a onetime math major with a love of exotic food, places and people."WomanAroundTown.com, 7/26/13 "Gross has literally been just about everywhere on the planet. Luckily for us, he's happy to share his anecdotes...He is a champion of the unplanned moment.""San Francisco Book Review", 8/14/2013 "Gross's memoir of his globe-trotting writing life provides a compelling, and often surprising, background to the stories gracing the pages of the "Times"...Gross has written hundreds of articles, giving readers an insider's view of places around the world; and this insider's view of the travel writer's life is no less illuminating."
