About this title: A celebration of adventure and curiosity, this compilation transports readersfrom Patagonia to the Ivory Coast to small-town Vermont.
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Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 327 p. Best American Travel Writing (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
"This was an excellent collection that really helped me engage my travel writing wet dream. Best articals include: The New Mecca by George Saunders, The Selling of the Last Savage by Michael Behar, A St. Petersburg Christmas by Gary Shteyngart, and Lets Ski Korea by Christopher Solomon. There are several other really good ones. I am making it a personal goal get into the 2009 or 2010 editions, so keep your eye out."
"I picked this up on an exchange shelf while on Bequia this winter -- seemed appropriate. I've been picking it up and reading the essays one or two at a time every since, and so many of them have been enjoyable that I'm giving this the full five stars. Oddities like skiing in South Korea and experiencing Dubai, and creepy things like a trip into the interior of New Guinea, and just a whole variety. I guess I'm going to have to start picking up this Best series along with the short stories."
"A compilation of short travel essays. Some of my favorite stories: "The Price of Paradise" -- Poking fun at an enormously expensive trip to the Grand Waimea. "The New Mecca" -- Surreal trip through Dubai and speaking with the worker inhabitants there. "Out of Ohio"-- A beautiful reminiscence on growing up in Ohio, and hitchiking out of, and back to Ohio. Gorgeous!"
"This is the second in this annual series which I have read. They have a wonderful collection of stories which are loosely clumped as travelogues, but really span an incredibly wide range of well-written nonfiction about different places. It is quite fun to read of all these places I would love to go if I had the time and money!"
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