2000, ISBN: 061807466X

The world may be getting smaller, but that doesn't mean it's any less varied, surprising, or exotic--as is made evident by the 25 essays collected in the inaugural edition of the Best Ame… Mehr…

The world may be getting smaller, but that doesn't mean it's any less varied, surprising, or exotic--as is made evident by the 25 essays collected in the inaugural edition of the Best American Travel Writing series. In search of America's sharpest, most original, and often, most curious travel writers, editor Bill Bryson and series editor Jason Wilson sifted through hundreds of stories. What the resulting collection demonstrates is that, as Wilson writes, travel stories matter: Having a travel writer report on particular things, small things, the specific ways in which people act and interact, is perhaps our best way of getting beyond the clichés that we tell each other about different places and cultures, and about ourselves. And, as Bryson notes, many of the freshest voices are being drawn to foreign subjects far beyond the trampled paths of tourism. Within these pages, they chart the world from Nantucket to Zanzibar, the Atlas Mountains of Morocco to Australia's Cape York Peninsula with originality and keen observation. Some even go where none would follow: drawn by the allure of danger zones, Patrick Symmes rides a dirt bike to "perhaps the most forbidden city in the world" in search of the Khmer Rouge. Tim Cahill describes his own personal journey in hell--11 long days on a barge on the Ubangi River with 3,000 people packed so close together it's impossible to move without apologizing. (Fortunately, he's befriended by a man named God who is alway essays,essays and correspondence,fiction,gay and lesbian,literature and fiction,travel,travel writing Travel Writing, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt<

2000, ISBN: 9780618074662

The inaugural edition of THE BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING reads like a good novel, conveying both the surface identity of places around the world and their intrinsic character. In choosin… Mehr…

The inaugural edition of THE BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING reads like a good novel, conveying both the surface identity of places around the world and their intrinsic character. In choosing only pieces of the highest quality, best-selling author Bill Bryson and series editor Jason Wilson have put together a book that will surprise knowledgeable travelers and entrance beginners with the glories of new worlds and experiences. Articles by such well-loved writers as Bill Buford, Tim Cahill, Dave Eggers, David Halberstam, Isabel Hilton, Jessica Maxwell, P. J. O'Rourke, and William T. Vollmann are included, as are those by exciting new voices. Ranging widely across myriad topics -- drinking the first drink of the day, breaking down in the middle of the desert, picking up hitchhikers in Cuba, playing golf in Greenland, smuggling cheese from France, witnessing the birth of a new state -- THE BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING 2000 showcases the diversity and creative wonder of travel writing today. The Best American Travel Writing 2000 Bryson, Bill / Wilson, Jason, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)<

2000, ISBN: 9780618074662

The inaugural edition of THE BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING reads like a good novel, conveying both the surface identity of places around the world and their intrinsic character. In choosin… Mehr…

The inaugural edition of THE BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING reads like a good novel, conveying both the surface identity of places around the world and their intrinsic character. In choosing only pieces of the highest quality, best-selling author Bill Bryson and series editor Jason Wilson have put together a book that will surprise knowledgeable travelers and entrance beginners with the glories of new worlds and experiences. Articles by such well-loved writers as Bill Buford, Tim Cahill, Dave Eggers, David Halberstam, Isabel Hilton, Jessica Maxwell, P. J. O'Rourke, and William T. Vollmann are included, as are those by exciting new voices. Ranging widely across myriad topics -- drinking the first drink of the day, breaking down in the middle of the desert, picking up hitchhikers in Cuba, playing golf in Greenland, smuggling cheese from France, witnessing the birth of a new state -- THE BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING 2000 showcases the diversity and creative wonder of travel writing today. Media > Book, [PU: Houghton Mifflin]<

2000, ISBN: 9780618074662

Hardcover book. 320 pages. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company (2000) Media > Book, [PU: Houghton Mifflin]

2000, ISBN: 9780618074662

Hardcover book. 320 pages. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) Media > Book, [PU: Houghton Mifflin]