The Best American Travel Writing 2017
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
Format: Book
Description: xxi, 292 pages ; 21 cm.
Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in 2017, selected from magazines, newspapers, and web sites.
Series: Best American series.
Other Authors:
Collins, Lauren (Journalist), editor.
Wilson, Jason, 1944- series editor.
Batuman, Elif, 1977- contributor.
Bissell, Tom, 1974- contributor.
Elizondo Griest, Stephanie, 1974- contributor.
Frick-Wright, Peter, contributor.
Hedeman, Jackie, contributor.
Jamison, Leslie, 1983- contributor.
Kantor, Jodi, 1975- contributor.
Einhorn, Catrin, contributor.
Kenan, Randall, contributor.
Knafo, Saki, contributor.
Knapp, Gwendolyn, 1981- contributor.
Kushner, David, 1968- contributor.
Lewis-Kraus, Gideon, contributor.
Macfarlane, Robert, 1976-
Mah, Ann, contributor.
Okeowo, Alexis, contributor.
Parks, Tim, contributor.
Puhak, Shelley, contributor.
Rogers, Elizabeth Lindsey, 1985- contributor.
Schulz, Kathryn, contributor.
Tower, Wells, 1973- contributor.
Ugwu, Reggie, contributor.
Wyatt, Kim, contributor.
Collins, Lauren (Journalist), editor.
Wilson, Jason, 1944- series editor.
Batuman, Elif, 1977- contributor.
Bissell, Tom, 1974- contributor.
Elizondo Griest, Stephanie, 1974- contributor.
Frick-Wright, Peter, contributor.
Hedeman, Jackie, contributor.
Jamison, Leslie, 1983- contributor.
Kantor, Jodi, 1975- contributor.
Einhorn, Catrin, contributor.
Kenan, Randall, contributor.
Knafo, Saki, contributor.
Knapp, Gwendolyn, 1981- contributor.
Kushner, David, 1968- contributor.
Lewis-Kraus, Gideon, contributor.
Macfarlane, Robert, 1976-
Mah, Ann, contributor.
Okeowo, Alexis, contributor.
Parks, Tim, contributor.
Puhak, Shelley, contributor.
Rogers, Elizabeth Lindsey, 1985- contributor.
Schulz, Kathryn, contributor.
Tower, Wells, 1973- contributor.
Ugwu, Reggie, contributor.
Wyatt, Kim, contributor.
Contents:
Cover story / Elif Batuman -- My Holy Land vacation / Tom Bissell -- Chiefing in Cherokee / Stephanie Elizondo Griest -- Cliffhanger / Peter Frick-Wright -- The ones who left / Jackie Hedeman -- The big leap / Leslie Jamison -- Refugees hear a foreign word: welcome / Jodi Kantor and Catrin Einhorn -- Finding the forgotten / Randall Kenan -- Waiting on a whale at the end of the world / Saki Knafo -- Plum crazy / Gwendolyn Knapp -- Land of the lost / David Kushner -- On the road / Gideon Lewis-Kraus -- The secrets of the wood wide web / Robert Macfarlane -- Volunteering for the harvest / Ann Mah -- The away team / Alexis Okeowo -- A palpable history / Tim Parks -- Eva, she kill her one daughter / Shelley Puhak -- One person means alone / Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers -- Citizen Khan / Kathryn Schulz -- No amount of traffic or Instagrammers or drunks can take the magic out of (semi-) wilderness / Wells Tower -- My father's house / Reggie Ugwu -- The currency of moons / Kim Wyatt.
Subjects:
Travel writing.
Travel -- Periodicals -- Excerpts.
Travelers' writings, American.
Voyages and travels -- Anecdotes.
Travel writing.
Travel -- Periodicals -- Excerpts.
Travelers' writings, American.
Voyages and travels -- Anecdotes.
ISBN:
1328745732
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
TRAVEL Writing Bes 2017 | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
"A Mariner original."
Reprinted from various periodicals.
Reprinted from various periodicals.