The Best Travel Writing: True Stories from Around the World 2011 Edition Contributor(s): O'Reilly, James (Editor), Habegger, Larry (Editor), O'Reilly, Sean (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1609520084 ISBN-13: 9781609520083 Publisher: Travelers' Tales OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues |
Dewey: 910.4 |
Series: Best Travel Writing |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.75 lbs) 352 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The Best Travel Writing 2011 is the eighth volume 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 to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine. Sweat, suffer, and fall in love in Guyana, meet a traveler who conducts his own detente in Russian baths, and encounter the light of a stranger in Burma. Further tales include methods on comprehending the nuances of bargaining in Senegal and an archaeologist who digs up her own past in Greece. |