The Best American Travel Writing. 2015
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Format: Book
Description: xix, 360 pages ; 21 cm.
In his introduction, guest editor Andrew McCarthy says that the best travel writing is "the anonymous and solitary traveler capturing a moment in time and place, giving meaning to his or her travels." The stories in The Best American Travel Writing 2015 demonstrate just that spirit, whether it is the story of a marine returning to Iraq a decade after his deployment, a writer retracing the footsteps of humanity as it spread from Africa throughout the world, or looking for love on a physics-themed cruise down the Rhone River. No matter what the subject, the writers featured in this volume boldly call out, "Yes, this matters. Follow me!"
The Best American Travel Writing 2015 includes
Iris Smyles, Paul Theroux, Christopher Solomon
Patricia Marx, Kevin Baker, Benjamin Busch, Maud Newton
Gary Shteyngart, Paul Salopek,
and others
ANDREW MCCARTHY, guest editor, is the author of the New York Times best-selling travel memoir The Longest Way Home. He has served as an editor at large at National Geographic Traveler and been named travel journalist of the year by the Society of American Travel Writers. He is also an actor and director.
JASON WILSON, series editor, is the author of Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits and the digital wine series Planet of the Grapes. He has written for the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Daily News, and many other publications. He is the founding editor of The Smart Set and Table Matters.
The Best American Travel Writing 2015 includes
Iris Smyles, Paul Theroux, Christopher Solomon
Patricia Marx, Kevin Baker, Benjamin Busch, Maud Newton
Gary Shteyngart, Paul Salopek,
and others
ANDREW MCCARTHY, guest editor, is the author of the New York Times best-selling travel memoir The Longest Way Home. He has served as an editor at large at National Geographic Traveler and been named travel journalist of the year by the Society of American Travel Writers. He is also an actor and director.
JASON WILSON, series editor, is the author of Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits and the digital wine series Planet of the Grapes. He has written for the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Daily News, and many other publications. He is the founding editor of The Smart Set and Table Matters.
Series: Best American series.
Other Authors:
McCarthy, Andrew, 1962- editor, writer of supplementary textual content.
Wilson, Jason, 1974- editor, writer of supplementary textual content.
McCarthy, Andrew, 1962- editor, writer of supplementary textual content.
Wilson, Jason, 1974- editor, writer of supplementary textual content.
Contents:
The sound of silence / Lisa Abend -- Lawrence's Arabia / Scott Anderson -- 21st Century Limited / Kevin Baker -- Land of the lost / Stephen Connely Benz -- Today is better than tomorrow / Benjamin Busch -- The happiness metric / Madeline Drexler -- Ashes to ashes / David Farley -- Daughters of the springs / Lauren Groff -- Tales of the trash / Peter Hessler -- Hail Dayton / Rachael Maddux -- A tale of a tub / Patricia Marx -- The great pleasure project / Tim Neville -- A doubter in the Holy Land / Maud Newton -- My Timbuktu / Adriana Páramo -- Berlin nights / Nick Paumgarten -- Made in China / Tony Perrottet -- Mr. Nhem's Genocide Camera / Lauren Quinn -- Camino Real / Monte Reel -- Out of Eden Walk / Paul Salopek -- Behind closed doors at hotels / Gary Shteyngart -- Ship of wonks / Iris Smyles -- Baked Alaska / Christopher Solomon -- Bonfire of the humanities / Patrick Symmes -- The soul of the south / Paul Theroux.
Subjects:
Travel writing.
Travel -- Periodicals -- Excerpts.
Travelers' writings, American.
Short stories, American.
Voyages and travels -- Anecdotes.
Travel writing.
Travel -- Periodicals -- Excerpts.
Travelers' writings, American.
Short stories, American.
Voyages and travels -- Anecdotes.
ISBN:
9780544569645
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"A Mariner original."
Reprinted from various periodicals.
Reprinted from various periodicals.