Best American travel writing
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The best American travel writing 2000
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The best American travel writing 2002
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The best American travel writing 2003
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The best American travel writing 2004
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The best American travel writing 2005
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The best American travel writing 2006
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The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected-and...
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The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected...
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'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...
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HarperCollins
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2015
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English
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Outstanding stories of discovery in unexpected places by Kevin Baker, Lauren Groff, Gary Shteyngart, Paul Theroux, and many more.
In his introduction to this superb collection, guest editor Andrew McCarthy—New York Times-bestselling author of the travel memoir The Longest Way Home—offers a thrilling itinerary of great nonfiction, whether it's the story of a marine returning to Iraq a decade after his deployment, a writer...
In his introduction to this superb collection, guest editor Andrew McCarthy—New York Times-bestselling author of the travel memoir The Longest Way Home—offers a thrilling itinerary of great nonfiction, whether it's the story of a marine returning to Iraq a decade after his deployment, a writer...
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This collection gathers the best travel essays from The New Yorker, Harpers, GQ and more-featuring Paul Theroux, Alice Gregory, Dave Eggers and others.
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," these questions start us on the path of some fascinating explorations. While the various contributors...
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The best American travel writing 2018
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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.
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The year's best travel writing, as chosen by series editor Jason Wilson and guest editor Robert Macfarlane.
Writing, reading, and dreaming about travel have surged, writes Robert MacFarlane in his introduction to the Best American Travel Writing 2020. From an existential reckoning in avalanche school, to an act of kindness at the Mexican-American border, to a moral dilemma at a Kenyan orphanage, the journeys showcased in this collection are as spiritual...
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Mariner Books, a division of HarperCollins
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2021
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English
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"The essays in this year's Best American Travel Writing are an antidote to the isolation of the year 2020, giving us views into experiences unlike our own and taking us on journeys we could not take ourselves. From the lively music of West Africa, to the rich culinary traditions of Muslims in Northwest China, to the thrill of a hunt in Alaska, this collection is a treasure trove of diverse places and cultures, providing the comfort, excitement, and...