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The best American travel writing 2016 / edited and with an introduction by Bill Bryson ; Jason Wilson, series editor.
Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in 2016, selected from magazines, newspapers, and web sites.
Record details
- ISBN: 0544812093
- ISBN: 9780544812093
- Physical Description: xxi, 289 pages ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Mariner original." Reprinted from various periodicals. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | White guy in a Djellaba / Michael Chabon -- How can we find more people like you? / Sara Corbett -- The actual hollister / Dave Eggers -- Rotten Ice / Gretel Ehrlich -- Off Diamond Head / William Finnegan -- Climb every mountain / Alice Gregory -- The foreign spell / Pico Iyer -- The Marboro men of Chernivtsi / Andrew W. Jones -- What's left behind / Kea Krause -- Hiding from animals / Helen MacDonald -- About face / Patricia Marx -- A cave with a view / D. T. Max -- Born to travel / Freda Moon -- The reddest carpet / Mitch Moxley -- Growing old with the Inuit / Justin Nobel -- The green heaven / Stephanie Pearson -- Darwin's forgotten world / Tony Perrottet -- Little things that kill you / Steven Rinella -- Swiss dream / David Rowell -- Peak Havana / Patrick Symmes -- Fyodor's guide / Jeffery Tayler -- Return of the mockingbird / Paul Theroux -- Invisible and insidious / William T. Vollman -- In another country / Thomas Chatterton Williams. |
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| Subject: | Travel > Periodicals > Excerpts. Travelers' writings, American. Short stories, American. Voyages and travels > Anecdotes. |
| Genre: | Travel writing. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Newburgh Chandler PL - Bell Road Library | 910.2 BEST 2016 (Text) | 39206021437437 | NonFiction | Available | - |
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JASON WILSON, series editor, is the author of Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits; Spaghetti on the Wall; and the forthcoming Why Wine Matters. He has written for the Washington Post Magazine, The New Yorker, the New York Times, and many other publications, and has won awards for Best Food Column from the Association of Food Journalists four times. - HoughtonWhy 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," they are questions worthy of examination. While the various contributors to this collection all travel for different reasons, one thing is for certain'they 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, their insights into the world and the human condition are illuminating and enthralling, providing an answer: This is why I like to travel.
The Best American Travel Writing 2016 includes Michael Chabon, Alice Gregory, Paul Theroux, Dave Eggers, Helen Macdonald, Sara Corbett, Stephanie Pearson,Thomas Chatterton Williams, Pico Iyer, and others
BILL BRYSON, guest editor, is the best-selling author of A Walk in the Woods; A Short History of Nearly Everything; One Summer: America, 1927; The Road to Little Dribbling; and numerous other books.
JASON WILSON, series editor, is the author of Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits; Spaghetti on the Wall; and the forthcoming Why Wine Matters. He has written for the Washington Post Magazine, The New Yorker, the New York Times, and many other publications, and has won awards for Best Food Column from the Association of Food Journalists four times. - HoughtonA collection of the best travel writing by American authors written in 2015
- HoughtonWhy 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,” they are questions worthy of examination. While the various contributors to this collection all travel for different reasons, one thing is for certain—they 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, their insights into the world and the human condition are illuminating and enthralling, providing an answer: This is why I like to travel.
The Best American Travel Writing 2016 includes Michael Chabon, Alice Gregory, Paul Theroux, Dave Eggers, Helen Macdonald, Sara Corbett, Stephanie Pearson,Thomas Chatterton Williams, Pico Iyer, and others
BILL BRYSON, guest editor, is the best-selling author of A Walk in the Woods; A Short History of Nearly Everything; One Summer: America, 1927; The Road to Little Dribbling; and numerous other books.
JASON WILSON, series editor, is the author of Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits; Spaghetti on the Wall; and the forthcoming Why Wine Matters. He has written for the Washington Post Magazine, The New Yorker, the New York Times, and many other publications, and has won awards for Best Food Column from the Association of Food Journalists four times.
