The Best American Travel Writing 2000

The Best American Travel Writing 2000
Author: Jason Wilson
Publisher: Mariner Books
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2000
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780618074679

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 2008

The Best American Travel Writing 2008
Author: Anthony Bourdain
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780618858637

Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in the previous year, selected from magazines, newspapers, and web sites.

The Best American Travel Writing 2013

The Best American Travel Writing 2013
Author: Jason Wilson
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0547810091

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.

The Best American Travel Writing 2009

The Best American Travel Writing 2009
Author: Simon Winchester
Publisher: Mariner Books
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780618858668

Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in the past year, selected from American magazines and newspapers.

Big Trips

Big Trips
Author: Raphael Kadushin
Publisher: Terrace Books
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2008
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780299228606

In this border-hopping anthology of travel memoir and fiction, every trip is a big one, as an advance guard of adventurous writers--both seasoned names and fresh voices--scatter across the globe, face the pure euphoria and sheer anxiety of travel, and survive a lot of very fast living.

The Best American Short Stories 2003

The Best American Short Stories 2003
Author: Katrina Kenison
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780618197330

Best-selling author Walter Mosley has selected the year's top fiction from voices well-known and new. Here several authors bring their stories to vivid life for a banner audio edition.

Vagabonding

Vagabonding
Author: Rolf Potts
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2002-12-24
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0812992180

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • With a new foreword by Tim Ferriss • “Vagabonding easily remains in my top-10 list of life-changing books. Why? Because one incredible trip, especially a long-term trip, can change your life forever. And Vagabonding teaches you how to travel (and think), not just for one trip, but for the rest of your life.”—Tim Ferriss, from the foreword There’s nothing like vagabonding: taking time off from your normal life—from six weeks to four months to two years—to discover and experience the world on your own terms. In this one-of-a-kind handbook, veteran travel writer Rolf Potts explains how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel. Now completely revised and updated, Vagabonding is an accessible and inspiring guide to • financing your travel time • determining your destination • adjusting to life on the road • working and volunteering overseas • handling travel adversity • re-assimilating back into ordinary life Updated for our ever-changing world, Vagabonding is an indispensable guide for the modern traveler.

Travel Writing 2.0

Travel Writing 2.0
Author: Tim Leffel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781609101084

This is the first guide to earning money from travel writing in a media landscape turned upside down. With stories and advice for dozens of working travel writers, editors, and publishers, Travel Writing 2.0 leads readers on a path to success straddling print and electronic media. Written by Tim Leffel, a successful writer, book author, editor, and blogger.

The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011

The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011
Author: Lavinia Spalding
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2011-03-13
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1609520130

Since publishing 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 seventh in an annual series—The Best Women’s Travel Writing—that presents 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 are a woman’s perspective and compelling storytelling to make the reader laugh, weep, wish she were there, or be glad she wasn’t. In The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011, readers Have lunch with a mobster in Japan and drinks with an IRA member in Ireland Learn the secrets of flamenco in Spain and the magic of samba in Brazil Deliver a trophy for best testicles in a small town in rural Serbia Fall in love while riding a camel through the Syrian Desert Ski a first descent of over 5,000 feet in Northern India Discover the joy of getting naked in South Korea Leave it all behind to slop pigs on a farm in Ecuador...and much more.