Looking for the Philippines: Travel Essays is Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo’s 6th book on this genre, where she reflects on encounters, conversations, and new discoveries. Partly memoir-based, the collection contains essays on Baguio, Tagaytay, Naga, La Union, Vigan, Laog, Dumaguete, Iloilo, Bacolod, Cebu, Puerto Princesa, and Boracay.

A fictionist, critic, and scholar, Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo is one of the country’s leading pioneers for creative nonfiction. She is currently Professor Emeritus of English & Comparative Literature at the University of the Philippines (Diliman) and Director of the University of Santo Tomas Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies. She was awarded the Southeast Asian Writers (S.E.A. Write) Lifetime Achievement Award on August 10, 2023.

Publisher: 
The University of the Philippines Press, Philippines

Publication Date:
2009

Format: 
Softcover /  9x 6 inches / 257 pages / BW

Language:
English

ISBN: 978-971-542-605-3