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  • The Best American Travel Writing 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0358094232
    • ISBN: 0358094232
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    An eclectic compendium of the best travel writing essays published in 2018, collected by Alexandra Fuller. BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING gathers together a satisfyingly varied medley of perspectives, all exploring what it means to travel somewhere new. For the past two decades, readers have come to recognize this annual volume as the gold standard f... [Read More]

  • Best American Travel Writing 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 1328497690
    • ISBN: 9781328497697
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    Everyone travels for different reasons, but whatever those reasons are, one thing is certain: they come back with stories. Each year, the best of those stories are collected in The Best American Travel Writing, curated by one of the top writers in the field, and each year they “open a window onto the strange, seedy, and beautiful world, offering ... [Read More]

  • Best American Travel Writing 2016 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544812093
    • ISBN: 9780544812093
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    Why 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 i... [Read More]

  • Best American Travel Writing 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 1328745732
    • ISBN: 9781328745736
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    “The Best American Travel Writing has been the gold standard for short-form travel writing from newspapers, magazines, and the Internet since its inception.” —New York Times Book Review Everyone travels for different reasons, but whatever those reasons are, one thing is certain—they come back with stories. Each year, the best of those stori... [Read More]

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2000

    • UPC: 046442074674
    • ASIN: 0618074678
    • ISBN: 0618074678
    • Manufacturer: Best American

    The extraordinary popularity of books and magazines dedicated to travel comes as no surprise, given that more and more Americans are traveling each year for business, pleasure, and especially adventure. Our fascination with travel has never been so well represented as in this new addition to the Best American series: a wide-ranging compendium of th... [Read More]

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2014 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544330153
    • ISBN: 0544330153
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    “Travel connoisseurs divide the world into those places they’ve been dying to visit or revisit and places they’d never set foot in but are glad someone else did. This year’s volume of travel writing . . . focuses mostly on the latter with derring-do dispatches.” — USA TodayA far-ranging collection of the best travel writing pieces publi... [Read More]

  • Impossible Owls: Essays

    • ASIN: B0796YNK8T
    • Manufacturer: FSG Originals

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. SEMI-FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR ART OF THE ESSAY.One of Amazon, Buzzfeed, ELLE, Electric Literature and Pop Sugar's Best Books of 2018. Named one of the Best Books of October and Fall by Amazon, Buzzfeed, TIME, Vulture, The Millions and Vol. 1 Brooklyn.“Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illumi... [Read More]

  • The Best Travel Writing, Volume 11: True Stories from Around the World

    • ASIN: 160952117X
    • ISBN: 160952117X
    • Brand: TRAVELERS TALES
    • Manufacturer: Travelers' Tales

    The Best Travel Writing, Volume 11 is the latest in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing — from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service ... [Read More]

  • The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 11: True Stories from Around the World

    • ASIN: B01N03YBME
    • Manufacturer: Travelers' Tales

    Since publishing the original edition of A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized national leader in women’s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women’s travel writing of the year. This title is the te... [Read More]

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2008 (The Best American Series ®)

    • UPC: 046442858649
    • ASIN: 0618858644
    • ISBN: 0618858644
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    In his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2008, editor Anthony Bourdain writes that the pieces that “spoke the loudest and most powerfully to me were usually evocative of the darker side, those moments fearful, sublime, and absurd; the small epiphanies familiar to the full-time traveler, interspersed by a sense of dislocation—and ... [Read More]

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2013 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0547808984
    • ISBN: 0547808984
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    Number-one New York Times best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed: A Love Story, Elizabeth Gilbert transports readers to far-flung locales with this collection of the year’s lushest and most inspiring travel writing.

  • Old Man on a Bike

    • ASIN: B00GQV15GA
    • Manufacturer: The Friday Project

    A Septuagenarian OdysseySimon Gandolfi has never been one to grow old gracefully and following two heart attacks he decides not to rest up, as many might, but to ride the length of Hispanic America on a 125cc motorbike. And why not?His wife may have plenty of reasons why not, but used to the intrepid septuagenarian's determination to complete any p... [Read More]

  • Don't Go There: From Chernobyl to North Korea-one man's quest to lose himself and find everyone else in the world's strangest places (Weird Travel Book 1)

    • ASIN: B0796T9N19
    • Manufacturer: Wanderlust Words

    How much would you risk to change your life?They shouldn’t have tear-gassed Spiegel bestselling author Adam Fletcher……now he’s on a mission. A mission to visit the strangest countries in the world. There’s something he wants to know. Something no-one is telling.But then his eccentric German girlfriend decides she’s coming too. They:- Fr... [Read More]

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2011 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0547333366
    • ISBN: 0547333366
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites . A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the bes... [Read More]

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2006 (The Best American Series)

    • UPC: 046442582155
    • ASIN: 0618582150
    • ISBN: 0618582150
    • Manufacturer: Best American

    Tim Cahill writes in his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2006, "'Story' is the essence of the travel essay. Stories are the way we organize the chaos in our lives, orchestrate voluminous factual material, and -- if we are very good -- shed some light on the human condition." Here are twenty-six pieces that showcase the best travel ... [Read More]

  • The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 9: True Stories from Around the World

    • ASIN: 160952084X
    • ISBN: 160952084X
    • Brand: Brand: Travelers' Tales
    • Manufacturer: Travelers' Tales

    Anyone whose passport has been stamped a few times knows the surest method of keeping the travel fire alive: by reading and telling stories from the road, passing them along like a torch in a relay race.From Travelers’ Tales comes The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 9: True Stories from Around the World—the ninth collection in the annual b... [Read More]

  • The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

    • ASIN: B07MGS81WS
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.As part of the Treaty of Par... [Read More]

  • Destination Earth: A New Philosophy of Travel by a World-Traveler

    • ASIN: 0997414804
    • ISBN: 0997414804
    • Manufacturer: Bamboo Leaf Press

    Updated 2nd Edition 2019 Gold Medal Winner: International Book Award in the Travel Category, 2017Gold Medal Winner: Independent Press Award in the Travel Category, 2017Silver Medal Winner: Reader's Favorite Award in the Travel Genre, 2017 "In his book, Destination Earth, Nicos Hadjicostis shares the ultimate 'budget travel tip': how to make your t... [Read More]

  • World's Best Travel Experiences: 400 Extraordinary Places

    • ASIN: 1426209592
    • ISBN: 9781426209598
    • Brand: National Geographic Society
    • Manufacturer: National Geographic

  • Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland

    • ASIN: 1101982616
    • ISBN: 9781101982617
    • Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

    A New York Times bestseller—a brilliantly funny exploration of the Sunshine State from the man who knows it best: Pulitzer Prize winner Dave Barry. We never know what will happen next in Florida. We know only that, any minute now, something will. Every few months, Dave Barry gets a call from some media person wanting to know, “What the hell is ... [Read More]

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