Best American Travel Writing 2018 (The Best American Series ®)
Best American Travel Writing 2018 (The Best American Series ®)
Everyone travels for different reasons, but whatever those reasons are, one thing is certain: they come back with stories. Each year, the best of those stories are collected in The Best American Travel Writing, curated by one of the top writers in the field, and each year they “open a window onto the strange, seedy, and beautiful world, offering readers glimpses into places that many will never see or experience except through the eyes and words of these writers” (Kirkus). This far-ranging collection of top notch travel writing is, quite simply, the genre’s gold standard.
- ASIN: 1328497690
- ISBN: 9781328497697
- Manufacturer: Best American Paper
The Best Travel Writing, Volume 11: True Stories from Around the World
The Best Travel Writing, Volume 11: True Stories from Around the World
The Best Travel Writing, Volume 11 is the latest in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing — from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisines and cultures. Includes winners from the annual Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing.Introduction by Rolf PottsIn The Best Travel Writing, Volume 11, readers will:Piece together the puzzle of life in rural CambodiaReawaken the joy of travel on a bus ride through MexicoReexamine war memories with former soldiers in VietnamLearn the ropes and the art of sailing with a "good captain" on the PacificFind a true soul sister in the highlands of EcuadorFollow Vincent van Gogh's footsteps in FranceSurvive (or not) a home invasion in Brazil...and much more
- ASIN: B01EEQ9C5E
- Manufacturer: Travelers' Tales
The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 10: True Stories from Around the World
The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 10: True Stories from Around the World
In The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 10: True Stories from Around the World, thirty celebrated and emerging writers invite you to ride shotgun as they travel the globe to discover new places, people, and facets of themselves. The essays are as diverse as the destinations, the common thread being fresh, compelling storytelling that will make you laugh, weep, wish you were there, or thank your lucky stars you weren’t. The Best Women’s Travel Writing speaks to the reasons why we traveland how travel changes our lives.In The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 10: True Stories from Around the World, you’ll:Study the ancient art of belly dancing in EgyptGo day-drinking with a sea captain in CroatiaScuba dive through an underground cave in MexicoRun from massive exploding balloons in BurmaEmbed with the military in AfghanistanExperience a different kind of time in ArgentinaGo dogsledding in FinlandConfront heartache, pain, and a deadly creature in IndonesiaNegotiate with smugglers in MongoliaMarry a stranger at Burning Man... and much, much more.
- ASIN: 160952098X
- ISBN: 160952098X
- Brand: Travelers Tales Guides
- Manufacturer: Travelers' Tales
The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 8: True Stories from Around the World
The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 8: True Stories from Around the World
Since publishing the original edition of A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized leader in women’s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women’s travel writing of the year. This title is the eighth in an annual seriesThe Best Women’s Travel Writingthat presents stimulating, inspiring, and uplifting adventures from women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples, and facets of themselves. The common threads connecting these stories are a woman’s perspective and fresh, compelling storytelling to make the reader laugh, weep, wish she were there, or be glad she wasn’t. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes are as eclectic as in all of our books, including stories that encompass spiritual growth, hilarity and misadventure, high adventure, romance, solo journeys, stories of service to humanity, family travel, and encounters with exotic cuisine.
- ASIN: 1609520599
- ISBN: 1609520599
- Brand: Brand: Travelers' Tales
- Manufacturer: Travelers' Tales
The Best American Travel Writing 2013 (The Best American Series ®)
The Best American Travel Writing 2013 (The Best American Series ®)
Number-one New York Times best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed: A Love Story, Elizabeth Gilbert transports readers to far-flung locales with this collection of the year’s lushest and most inspiring travel writing.
- ASIN: 0547808984
- ISBN: 0547808984
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
The Best American Travel Writing 2019 (The Best American Series ®)
The Best American Travel Writing 2019 (The Best American Series ®)
An eclectic compendium of the best travel writing essays published in 2018, collected by Alexandra Fuller. BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING gathers together a satisfyingly varied medley of perspectives, all exploring what it means to travel somewhere new. For the past two decades, readers have come to recognize this annual volume as the gold standard for excellence in travel writing.
- ASIN: 0358094232
- ISBN: 0358094232
- Brand: Mariner Books
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
The Best American Travel Writing 2014 (The Best American Series ®)
The Best American Travel Writing 2014 (The Best American Series ®)
“Travel connoisseurs divide the world into those places they’ve been dying to visit or revisit and places they’d never set foot in but are glad someone else did. This year’s volume of travel writing . . . focuses mostly on the latter with derring-do dispatches.” — USA TodayA far-ranging collection of the best travel writing pieces published in 2013, collected by guest editor Paul Theroux. The Best American Travel Writing consistently includes a wide variety of pieces, illuminating the wonder, humor, fear, and exhilaration that greets all of us when we embark on a journey to a new place. Readers know that there is simply no other option when they want great travel writing.
- ASIN: 0544330153
- ISBN: 0544330153
- Brand: Mariner Books
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Best American Travel Writing 2016 (The Best American Series ®)
Best American Travel Writing 2016 (The Best American Series ®)
Why do I travel? Why does anyone of us travel? Bill Bryson poses these questions in his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2016, and though he admits, “I wasn’t at all sure I knew the answer,” they are questions worthy of examination. While the various contributors to this collection all travel for different reasons, one thing is for certain—they come back with stories. Whether traversing the Arctic by dogsled, attending a surreal film festival in North Korea, or strolling the streets of a fast-changing Havana, their insights into the world and the human condition are illuminating and enthralling, providing an answer: This is why I like to travel.The Best American Travel Writing 2016 includes Michael Chabon, Alice Gregory, Paul Theroux, Dave Eggers, Helen Macdonald, Sara Corbett, Stephanie Pearson,Thomas Chatterton Williams, Pico Iyer, and othersBILL BRYSON, guest editor, is the best-selling author of A Walk in the Woods; A Short History of Nearly Everything; One Summer: America, 1927; The Road to Little Dribbling; and numerous other books. JASON WILSON, series editor, is the author of Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits; Spaghetti on the Wall; and the forthcoming Why Wine Matters. He has written for the Washington Post Magazine, The New Yorker, the New York Times, and many other publications, and has won awards for Best Food Column from the Association of Food Journalists four times.
- ASIN: 0544812093
- ISBN: 9780544812093
- Brand: Mariner Books
- Manufacturer: Best American Paper
Best American Travel Writing 2017 (The Best American Series ®)
Best American Travel Writing 2017 (The Best American Series ®)
“The Best American Travel Writing has been the gold standard for short-form travel writing from newspapers, magazines, and the Internet since its inception.” —New York Times Book Review Everyone travels for different reasons, but whatever those reasons are, one thing is certain—they come back with stories. Each year, the best of those stories are collected in The Best American Travel Writing, curated by one of the top writers in the field, and each year they “open a window onto the strange, seedy and beautiful world, offering readers glimpses into places that many will never see or experience except through the eyes and words of these writers" (Kirkus Reviews). This far-ranging collection of top notch travel writing is, quite simply, the genre’s gold standard.
- ASIN: 1328745732
- ISBN: 9781328745736
- Manufacturer: Best American Paper
The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 11: True Stories from Around the World
The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 11: True Stories from Around the World
Since publishing the original edition of A Woman's World in 1995, Travelers' Tales has been the recognized national leader in women's travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women's travel writing of the year. This title is the eleventh in that series—The Best Women's Travel Writing—presenting stimulating, inspiring, and uplifting adventures from women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples, and facets of themselves.The common threads connecting these stories are a female perspective and fresh, compelling storytelling to make the reader laugh, weep, wish she were there, or be glad she wasn't. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes are as eclectic as in all of our books, including stories that encompass spiritual growth, hilarity and misadventure, high adventure, romance, solo journeys, stories of service to humanity, family travel, and encounters with exotic cuisine.The 31 true travel stories in this year's collection are, as always, wildly diverse in theme and location. They tell of places like California and Cuba, Switzerland and Singapore, Iran and Iceland, Montana and Mexico and Mongolia and Mali, our own back yards and some of the farthest, most extreme corners of the world. They are the personal stories we can't help but collect when we travel, stories of reaching out to embrace the unfamiliar and creating cross-cultural connections while learning more about ourselves. In The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 11, you will: go scuba diving with sharks in Palau cook for Syrian refugees in Greece be the first American to play pro basketball in the Czech Republic anger a nun in Ethiopia go whitewater rafting on the Nile in Uganda help slaughter a pig in Hungary realize your limits of filial piety in Singapore seek healing at the hands of a witchdoctor in Mexico feast on rancid food in Icelan... [Read More]
- ASIN: 1609521110
- ISBN: 1609521110
- Brand: TRAVELERS TALES
- Manufacturer: Travelers' Tales