In the 1970s, at a time when the Taiwanese still seldom traveled abroad, the writer San Mao became a best-selling author by producing a series of prose works with the flavor of foreign places. She used writing to take readers to far-flung locales that they would have no other opportunity to visit.
在一九七○年代，台灣人出國旅遊仍屬罕事，作家三毛以一系列異地風味的散文作品，成為暢銷作家，以文字帶領讀者遊歷當時不可及的遙遠國度。