The Best American Travel Writing 2014

The Best American Travel Writing 2014
Author: Jason Wilson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2014
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0544330153

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

The Best American Travel Writing 2016

The Best American Travel Writing 2016
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0544812166

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 2020

The Best American Travel Writing 2020
Author: Jason Wilson
Publisher: Mariner Books
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2020-11-03
Genre:
ISBN: 0358362032

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 2021

The Best American Travel Writing 2021
Author: Jason Wilson
Publisher: Mariner Books
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0358361311

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

The Best American Travel Writing 2018

The Best American Travel Writing 2018
Author: Jason Wilson
Publisher: Mariner Books
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2018
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1328497690

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

The Happy Isles of Oceania

The Happy Isles of Oceania
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 731
Release: 2006-12-08
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0547525184

The author of The Great Railway Bazaar explores the South Pacific by kayak: “This exhilarating epic ranks with [his] best travel books” (Publishers Weekly). In one of his most exotic and adventuresome journeys, travel writer Paul Theroux embarks on an eighteen-month tour of the South Pacific, exploring fifty-one islands by collapsible kayak. Beginning in New Zealand's rain forests and ultimately coming to shore thousands of miles away in Hawaii, Theroux paddles alone over isolated atolls, through dirty harbors and shark-filled waters, and along treacherous coastlines. Along the way, Theroux meets the king of Tonga, encounters street gangs in Auckland, and investigates a cargo cult in Vanuatu. From Australia to Tahiti, Fiji, Easter Island, and beyond, this exhilarating tropical epic is full of disarming observations and high adventure.

The Best American Sports Writing 2014

The Best American Sports Writing 2014
Author: Christopher McDougall
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2014
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0544147006

The Best American Sports Writing gathers the very best from sports journalists from the past year.

Travel Writing

Travel Writing
Author: Don George
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781741047011

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.

The Best Travel Writing

The Best Travel Writing
Author: James O'Reilly
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2012-08-07
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1609520580

The Best Travel Writing, Volume 9 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.