The Best American Travel Writing 2016

Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544812166
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 319

Book Description
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 to this collection travel for different reasons, they all 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, some of today’s best travel writers share their experiences of the world and the human condition, offering, if not answers, than illumination and insight. The Best American Travel Writing 2016 includes Michael Chabon, William T. Vollmann, Helen Macdonald, Sara Corbett, Stephanie Pearson, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Pico Iyer, and others.

The Best American Travel Writing 2019

Author: Jason Wilson
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0358094267
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
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.

The Best American Travel Writing 2021

Author: Jason Wilson
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 0358361311
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
A collection of the year's best travel writing selected by Padma Lakshmi

The Best American Travel Writing 2020

Author: Jason Wilson
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 0358362032
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 339

Book Description
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 as they are physical. These stories provide not just remarkable entertainment, but also, as MacFarlane says, deep comfort, "carrying hope, creating connections, transporting readers to other-worlds, and imagining alternative presents and alternative futures." The Best American Travel 2020 includes HEIDI JULAVITS - YIYUN LI - PAUL SALOPEK - LACY JOHNSON - EMMANUEL IDUMA - JON MOOALLEM - EMILY RABOTEAU and others

The Best American Travel Writing 2018

Author: Jason Wilson
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 1328497690
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 355

Book Description
A collection of the best travel writing published in 2017, selected by Cheryl Strayed.

The Best Travel Writing 2009

Author: James O'Reilly
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 1932361626
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 379

Book Description
Features themes that encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine.

The Best American Travel Writing 2000

Author: Jason Wilson
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780618074679
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
This collection of travel articles includes contributions written by writers such as Bill Buford and Ryszard Kapuscinski, and range across myriads from New York's Central Park to to the Saharan Mauritania.

The Best American Travel Writing 2014

Author: Jason Wilson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544330153
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 339

Book Description
A collection of the best travel writing pieces published in American periodicals during 2013.

The Best American Essays 2016

Author: Jonathan Franzen
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544812174
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 355

Book Description
The National Book Award–winning author compiles a “thought-provoking volume” of essays by Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, Jaquira Diaz and others (Publishers Weekly). As Jonathan Franzen writes in his introduction, his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays 2016 “was whether an author had taken a risk.” The resulting volume showcases authorial risk in a variety of forms, from championing an unpopular opinion to the possibility of ruining a professional career, or irrevocably alienating one’s family. What’s gained are essential insights into aspects of the human condition that would otherwise remain concealed—from questions of queer identity, to the experience of a sibling’s autism and relationships between students and college professors. The Best American Essays 2016 includes entries by Alexander Chee, Paul Crenshaw, Jaquira Diaz, Laura Kipnis, Amitava Kaumar, Sebastian Junger, Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, George Steiner, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and others.

Travel Writing

Author: Don George
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781741047011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Providing information on how to get started in travel journalism, this book deals with all aspects of the profession, from its glamorous image to the gruelling reality.