<DIV><p>This collection of Nelson Algren's travel writings documents his journeys through the seamier sides of great American cities and the international social and political landscapes of the mid-1960s.</p><p><i>Notes from a Sea Diary</i> offers one of the most remarkable appraisals of Ernest Hemingway ever written. Aboard the freighter <i>Malayasia Mail</i>, Algren ponders his personal encounter with Hemingway in Cuba, and the values inherent in Hemingway's stories, as he visits the ports of Pusan, Kowloon, Bombay, and Calcutta.</p><p><i>Who Lost an American?</i> is a whirlwind spin through Paris and playboy clubs, New York publishing and Dublin pubs, Crete, and Chicago as Algren adventures with Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Brendan Behan, and Juliette Gréco.</p><p><b>Nelson Algren</b> (1909–1981) wrote of the despised urban underbelly of America before it was fashionable to do so, and still stands as one of our most defiant and enduring novelists. His novels include <i>The Man with the Golden Arm</i>, winner of the first National Book Award, <i>A Walk on the Wild Side</i>, and <i>Never Come Morning</i>.</p></DIV>