Five best novels about arduous journeys

Rose Tremain’s novels include ­Music and Silence and The ­Colour. Her most recent work, The Road Home, has just been released in paperback.For the Wall Street Journal, she named a five best list of novels about arduous journeys.One book on the list:The CrossingBy Cormac McCarthyKnopf, 1994Cormac McCarthy is ­America’s greatest contemporary poet of the wild. His fictional journeys have strange