The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011
The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011

Author: Lavinia Spalding

Publisher: Travelers' Tales

Published: 2011-03-13

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1609520130

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Since publishing A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized 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 seventh in an annual series—The Best Women’s Travel Writing—that presents inspiring and uplifting adventures from women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples, and facets of themselves. The common threads are a woman’s perspective and compelling storytelling to make the reader laugh, weep, wish she were there, or be glad she wasn’t. In The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011, readers Have lunch with a mobster in Japan and drinks with an IRA member in Ireland Learn the secrets of flamenco in Spain and the magic of samba in Brazil Deliver a trophy for best testicles in a small town in rural Serbia Fall in love while riding a camel through the Syrian Desert Ski a first descent of over 5,000 feet in Northern India Discover the joy of getting naked in South Korea Leave it all behind to slop pigs on a farm in Ecuador...and much more.

The Best American Travel Writing 2020
The Best American Travel Writing 2020

Author: Jason Wilson

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 2020-10-17

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0358362032

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The year's best travel writing, as chosen by series editor Jason Wilson and guest editor Robert Macfarlane. Writing, reading, and dreaming about travel have surged, writes Robert MacFarlane in his introduction to the Best American Travel Writing 2020. From an existential reckoning in avalanche school, to an act of kindness at the Mexican-American border, to a moral dilemma at a Kenyan orphanage, the journeys showcased in this collection are as spiritual as they are physical. These stories provide not just remarkable entertainment, but also, as MacFarlane says, deep comfort, "carrying hope, creating connections, transporting readers to other-worlds, and imagining alternative presents and alternative futures." The Best American Travel 2020 includes HEIDI JULAVITS - YIYUN LI - PAUL SALOPEK - LACY JOHNSON - EMMANUEL IDUMA - JON MOOALLEM - EMILY RABOTEAU and others

I Was Told There'd Be Cake
I Was Told There'd Be Cake

Author: Sloane Crosley

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-04-01

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1101147474

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Hailed by David Sedaris as "perfectly, relentlessly funny" and by Colson Whitehead as "sardonic without being cruel, tender without being sentimental," from the author of the new collection Look Alive Out There. Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory. From despoiling an exhibit at the Natural History Museum to provoking the ire of her first boss to siccing the cops on her mysterious neighbor, Crosley can do no right despite the best of intentions -- or perhaps because of them. Together, these essays create a startlingly funny and revealing portrait of a complex and utterly recognizable character who aims for the stars but hits the ceiling, and the inimitable city that has helped shape who she is. I Was Told There'd Be Cake introduces a strikingly original voice, chronicling the struggles and unexpected beauty of modern urban life.

The Best American Science Writing 2011
The Best American Science Writing 2011

Author: Rebecca Skloot

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-09-27

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 0062091247

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Edited by Rebecca Skloot, award-winning science writer and New York Times bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and her father, Floyd Skloot, an award-winning poet and writer, and past contributor to the series, The Best American Science Writing 2011 collects into one volume the most crucial, thought-provoking, and engaging science writing of the year. Culled from a wide variety of publications, these selections of outstanding journalism cover the full spectrum of scientific inquiry, providing a comprehensive overview of the most compelling, relevant, and exciting developments in the world of science. Provocative and engaging, The Best American Science Writing 2011 reveals just how far science has brought us—and where it is headed next.

The Best American Travel Writing 2011
The Best American Travel Writing 2011

Author: Jason Wilson

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 0547333366

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Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in the past year, selected from American magazines and newspapers.

The Best American Travel Writing 2013
The Best American Travel Writing 2013

Author: Jason Wilson

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 0547810091

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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.

The Best American Travel Writing 2000
The Best American Travel Writing 2000

Author: Jason Wilson

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780618074679

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This collection of travel articles includes contributions written by writers such as Bill Buford and Ryszard Kapuscinski, and range across myriads from New York's Central Park to to the Saharan Mauritania.

The Best American Travel Writing 2008
The Best American Travel Writing 2008

Author: Anthony Bourdain

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780618858637

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Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in the previous year, selected from magazines, newspapers, and web sites.