The Best Travel Writing 2008
True Stories from Around the World
1st Edition
Published on 1. July 2009
328 pages
978-1-932361-69-8 (ISBN)
Description
Since 1993, readers have looked to Travelers' Tales for award-winning stories about the world, adventure, spirituality, and the transformative experiences that accompany life on the road. The Best Travel Writing 2008 is the fifth volume in the series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing - much of it never before published - from Nobel Prize winners to up-and-coming new writers. The stories provide a perspective and depth of understanding that can only come from people who have actually been there, and encompass everything from high adventure to misadventure, spiritual growth to romance, service to humanity to encounters with exotic cuisines. Reading the book is like sitting in a café filled with fellow travelers, swapping tales about destinations near and far - readers emerge changed, eager for more, and ready to plan their next trips.
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James O'Reilly | Larry Habegger | Sean O'Reilly
The Best Travel Writing 2008
True Stories from Around the World
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03/2008
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James O'Reilly, publisher of Travelers' Tales, and Larry Habegger, executive editor, have worked as series editors on more than ninety Travelers' Tales titles, winning many awards for excellence. Larry also writes a syndicated newspaper column, "World Travel Watch," which has appeared since 1985 in major newspapers in five countries. James and Larry live with their families in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sean O'Reilly is coeditor of many Travelers' Tales books, and he is also the author of How to Manage Your DICK: Redirect Sexual Energy and Discover Your More Enlightened, Evolved Self. He lives in Virginia with his wife and six children.
Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Publisher's Preface
- Introduction
- Red Lights and a Rose
- Ice Ghost
- The Unquenchable Sea
- Holy Land Blues
- I Read Walden Once
- The Skeleton Coast
- The Winding Road to Joshua Tree
- Castles in the Sky
- Heroes of the Caribbean
- Flamenco Form
- Key to the City
- Don't Dread the Dread, Mon
- Mount Rushmore Revisited
- The Tides of Burano
- The Secret of the World Sleeps in a Calabash
- Once That Gun Goes Off
- The Village Kazani
- Baguio City Angels
- Why
- Gods Who Smell Like Goats
- Tortola
- Breadstick Hydra
- Ride to Karakorum
- Night, the Desert, and a Car
- Above Crystal Mountain
- Shoes Like Gondolas
- As Wind Moves, So Does Memory
- Philomen and Baucis
- Death of an Adventure Traveler
- Acknowledgments
