Travels with Ernest

Laurel Richardson is professor of sociology at Ohio State University. Ernest Lockridge is a novelist and professor of English at Ohio State University.

This exciting collaboration between Laurel Richardson and Ernest Lockridge is a writing story that documents the changing relationship of two writers, scholars, and lovers as they interpret differently their travels. Blurring the genres between ethnography, travel writing, science writing, and memoir, this experiment works in unexpected ways to challenge our notions of gender, space and place, and the possibilities of relationship in a postmodern world.

• Chapter 1 AcknowledgmentsChapter 2 Trail Guide: An IntroductionChapter 3 1: Death ValleyPart 4 Death Valley DayPart 5 Ah Wilderness!Part 6 Conversation: Death ValleyChapter 7 2: IrelandPart 8 All in the FamilyPart 9 Unquiet AmericanPart 10 Conversation: IrelandChapter 11 3: Beirut, LebanonPart 12 City by the SeaPart 13 Laurel in ArabiaPart 14 Conversation: BeirutPart 15 Meta-ConversationChapter 16 4: Copenhagen, DenmarkPart 17 Lost in the SpacePart 18 Stranger in a Stranger LandPart 19 Conversation: CopenhagenChapter 20 5: Petrozavodsk, RussiaPart 21 Out of RussiaPart 22 To Russia with LovePart 23 Conversation: RussiaChapter 24 6: St. Petersburg Beach, FloridaPart 25 On the BeachPart 26 Ernest goes to YalePart 27 Conversation: St. Pete BeachChapter 28 7: Sedona, ArizonaPart 29 Call of the CanyonPart 30 Grandson of PalefaceChapter 31 8: Worthington, OhioPart 32 Happy Trail—The MovieChapter 33 Appendix: How This Book Was MadeChapter 34 About the AuthorsChapter 35 Index