| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Series |
Travelers' tales, 1548-0224 |
| Contents |
Introduction / Pico Iyer -- The way of the mist (Iceland) / Cameron McPherson Smith -- Fire and water (West Africa) / Erika Connor -- One day, three dead men (Russia) / Marcia DeSanctis -- How I promised Anusha the smile (Paris) / Kevin McCaughey -- Ain't ready for no man (Guyana) / Katherine Jamieson -- The memory bird (Belarus) / Carolyn Kraus -- Camel college (India) / Matthew Crompton -- Lanterns of fear (At home) / Gary Buslik -- All in the same house (Japan) / Bill Fink -- Femme in the vosges (France) / Meike Eerkens -- Beneath the rim (Grand Canyon/Colorado River) / Michael Shapiro -- It's the sauce (Guatemala) / Mary Jo McConahay -- Jimmy the natural (Ireland) / Martin Dillon -- Flyover country (USA) / Johnna Kaplan -- Educating the body (Guyana) / Katherine Jamieson -- Sun Valley with Dad (Idaho) / Colette O'Connor -- Alone in India--but not for long (India) / Kate Grawford -- Winged victory (Paris) / Erin Byrne -- Protected (Germany) / Peter Wortsman -- The Chilean cliff carver (Spain) / Lisa Alpine -- Alone, illegal, and broke down (China) / Carla King -- Wilding horses (New Mexico) / Mary Caperton Morton -- In the fields of My Lai (Vietnam) / Joel Carillet -- The year we bought our hitchhiker (USA) / Deborah Taffa -- Death Road (Bolivia) / Sabine Bergmann -- Shiva and Sadhus at Pashupati Temple (Nepal) / Tim Ward -- Into the underworld (Greece) / Amanda Summer Slavin -- Eternity (The Sea/Ecuador) / Cameron McPherson Smith |
| Summary |
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 t |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Voyages and travels.
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journeys.
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TRAVEL -- Essays & Travelogues.
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Voyages and travels
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
O'Reilly, James, 1953-
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Habegger, Larry
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O'Reilly, Sean, 1952-
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Iyer, Pico
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| ISBN |
9781609520090 |
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1609520092 |
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1609520084 |
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9781609520083 |
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