These carefully chosen selections from Edith Wharton`s travel writing convey the writer`s control of her craft. Wharton disliked the generality of guidebooks and focused instead on the parentheses of travel --the undiscovered hidden corners of Europe, Morocco, and the Mediterranean. Included is an excerpt from Wharton`s unpublished memoir, The Cruise of Vanadis, as well as front line depictions of Lorraine and the Vosges during World War I. Photos.