How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays

{{Short description|Book by Umberto Eco}}

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How To Travel With A Salmon: and Other Essays is a collection of essays by Umberto Eco translated into English by William Weaver.{{Cite book|last=Eco|first=Umberto|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30158558|title=How to travel with a salmon & other essays|date=1994|publisher=Harcourt, Brace|others=William Weaver|isbn=0-15-100136-7|edition=|location=New York|oclc=30158558}} It was written over a period of thirty years and was published in October 1994 by Harcourt.{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/umberto-eco/how-to-travel-with-a-salmon-and-other-essays/|title=HOW TO TRAVEL WITH A SALMON AND OTHER ESSAYS {{!}} Kirkus Reviews|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Cómo viajar con un salmón / How to Travel with a Salmon by Umberto Eco: 9788426407139 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667467/como-viajar-con-un-salmon--how-to-travel-with-a-salmon-by-umberto-eco/|access-date=2021-09-02|website=PenguinRandomhouse.com|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|date=2011-10-23|title=BOOK REVIEW / Just a little something he prepared earlier: How to|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/book-review-just-a-little-something-he-prepared-earlier-how-to-travel-with-a-salmon-other-essays-umberto-eco-secker-warburg-pounds-9-99-1382030.html|access-date=2021-09-02|website=The Independent|language=en}}

Eco called the essays Il diario minimo, after the magazine column where he first published a similar series, previously collected in Misreadings.{{Cite web|last=Eco|first=Umberto|date=2016-02-22|title=How to Travel with a Salmon|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/02/22/how-to-travel-with-a-salmon/|access-date=2021-09-02|website=The Paris Review|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays|url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/2670130-il-secondo-diario-minimo|access-date=2021-09-02|website=www.goodreads.com}}{{Cite web|title=Nonfiction Book Review: How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays by Umberto Eco, Author, William Weaver, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $18.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-15-100136-1|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-15-100136-1|access-date=2021-09-02|website=PublishersWeekly.com|language=en}}