The Best Travel Writing
True Stories from Around the World
Published on 13. December 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
350 pages
978-1-60952-057-1 (ISBN)
Description
This is our annual collection of the best travel writing of the year, much of it never published before, from big names in travel literature and emerging new writers. The "Best Travel Writing" Volume 9 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 to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisines and cultures. It includes winners from the annual Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing. Since 1993, "Travelers' Tales" has been publishing award-winning books about the world, adventure, spirituality, and the life-changing experiences that take place on the road. The "Best Travel Writing" series follows this tradition by presenting in an annual volume the best travel stories from writers around the world.
Reviews / Votes
"Travelers' Tales books luxuriate in that complicated, beautiful, shadowy place where the best stories begin, and the most compelling characters roam free." (ForeWord Magazine) "Here in these pages is wonder and delight writ large - and a series of affirmations of a magnificent world... This book is a vivid and delightful testament to just why the world is in essence a wonderfully pleasing place, how its people are an inseparable part of its countless pleasures, and how travel is not so much hard work as wondrous fun...." (Simon Winchester)"More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
B&W illustrations throughout
Dimensions
Height: 204 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
404 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60952-057-1 (9781609520571)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
James O'Reilly | Larry Habegger | Sean O'Reilly
The Best Travel Writing
True Stories from Around the World
E-Book
08/2012
1st Edition
Travelers' Tales
€19.49
Available for download
Persons
James O'Reilly, publisher of Travelers' Tales, and Larry Habegger, executive editor, have worked as series editors on more than 125 Travelers' Tales/Solas House titles, winning many awards for excellence. Larry also writes a syndicated newspaper column, "World Travel Watch," which has appeared nationwide since 1985. James and Larry live with their families in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sean O'Reilly is coeditor of many Travelers' Tales books and the author of How to Manage Your DICK: Redirect Sexual Energy and Discover Your More Enlightened, Evolved Self. Introduction author Tim Cahill is one of America's foremost travel and adventure writers. He is the author of many books, among them Jaguars Ripped My Flesh; A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg; Road Fever; Pecked To Death By Ducks; Pass The Butterworms; Hold The Enlightenment; Lost in my own Backyard: a Walk in Yellowstone National Park; and the editor of Not So Funny When it Happened: the Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (Travelers' Tales).