Inspiring Travel Writing from Gregory McNamee
Gregory McNamee is the author or editor of twenty-eight books, among them Blue Mountains Far Away, Gila: The Life and Death of an American River, and .
McNamee\'s travel writing and other work has appeared in such journals and online publications as The Nation, Smithsonian, The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. McNamee is a contributing editor to The Bloomsbury Review and Kirkus Reviews, for which he reviews a wide range of books. He is also a contributing editor and consultant in world geography to the Encyclopaedia Britannica and its online adjunct, Britannica.com.
McNamee lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he works as a writer, journalist, photographer, and editor.
McNamee\'s travel writing and other work has appeared in such journals and online publications as The Nation, Smithsonian, The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. McNamee is a contributing editor to The Bloomsbury Review and Kirkus Reviews, for which he reviews a wide range of books. He is also a contributing editor and consultant in world geography to the Encyclopaedia Britannica and its online adjunct, Britannica.com.
McNamee lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he works as a writer, journalist, photographer, and editor.
Articles by Gregory McNamee
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Before You Die: Where the World Falls Away
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Gregory McNamee
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United States
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Arizona
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Grand Canyon
Point Imperial, on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, where the world falls away at your feet to reveal two billion years of terrestrial history. Gregory McNamee
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Skiing the Grand Canyon
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Gregory McNamee
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United States
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Arizona
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Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon, in summer, can be a slice of the inferno. Not because of the heat, although it is plenty hot in the high desert of the Colorado Plateau. No, the Canyon takes on its hellish aspect thanks to the grinding of tour-bus transmissions,...
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How Baldy tried to kill me
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Gregory McNamee
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United States
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Arizona
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Mount Baldy
On a tattered nineteenth-century military map of Arizona’s White Mountains, the state’s second-highest summit bears a name that, so far as I know, appears on no other chart: “Home of the Winds.” This is probably the cartographer’s poetic invention,...
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The Maratea Coast
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Gregory McNamee
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Italy
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Basilicata
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Maratea
As visually striking as the Amalfi Coast a hundred miles to the north, but with far more affordable amenities for the traveller, the slender Maratea Coast lies between the wind-whipped Gulf of Policastro and the rugged western slope of the Apennine...
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Arizona Round-Up
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Gregory McNamee
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United States
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Arizona
Embracing some of the most varied landscapes on the planet and some of the largest cities in the Mountain West, Arizona defies easy characterization. It covers more than 113,909 square miles of rugged desert and mountain terrain, it also resists the...
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The Real Nevada
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Gregory McNamee
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United States
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Nevada
Bring up the sovereign state of Nevada in a room full of easterners, and the odds are good that you'll strike up reminiscences of Las Vegas, Reno, and Tahoe, of fortunes almost won and fortunes always lost, of glitter-spangled performances and Elvis...
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Westin St Francis
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Gregory McNamee
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United States
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California
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San Francisco
Looming over Union Square with stately grace, the towering Westin St. Francis is well known to fans of California noir writing: it was there at the St. Francis, in the innocent days before the Westin chain came along, that poor Miles Archer spent...
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Hotel Drisco
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Gregory McNamee
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United States
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California
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San Francisco
Pacific Heights, as filmgoers know, is yuppie heaven: the neighborhood is fantastically expensive, chockablock with $10 million starter mansions, but the amenities match the price tag. So it is with the Hotel Drisco, which is elegant, utterly...
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The Archbishop’s Mansion
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Gregory McNamee
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United States
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California
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San Francisco
The archbishop of San Francisco, back in 1904, was a lucky fellow: he got to live in this beautiful mansion, done in the style of a French chateau, in one of the city’s toniest neighborhoods. The near-downtown neighborhood has grown a touch shabby...
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Hotel Adagio
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Gregory McNamee
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United States
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California
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San Francisco
The Hotel Adagio, in the heart of San Francisco’s ton-y Theatre District, is a marvel of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, the dominant California style of the Jazz Age. In the course of its recent, pricey (reported at more than $11 million)...