The Best American Travel Writing 2012 Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites.The Best American Series®First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country&rs
| TITLE | : | The Best American Travel Writing 2012 |
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| RATING | : | 4.74 (205 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0547808976 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 256 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2012-10-02 |
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The Best American Series®First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected — and most popular — of its kind.The Best American Travel Writing 2012 includesBryan Curtis, Lynn Freed, J. Malcolm Garcia, Peter Gwin,Pico Iyer, Mark Jenkins, Dimiter Kenarov, Robin Kirk,Kimberly Meyer, Paul Theroux, and others
Editorial : From Booklist *Starred Review* Bold and questing writer and world traveler Vollmann is at the helm of the thirteenth edition of this superb travel annual, which has always been distinguished by its stellar guest editors. Guided by his unceasing curiosity about complex places and authentic voices, Vollmann has chosen 19 electrifying essays originally published in the Believer, Ecotone, Virginia Quarterly Review, and even a travel zine as well as such perennial sources as Harper’s and National Geographic. Reaching from Timbuktu to Vietnam to Bulgaria, the collection begins with Monte Reel’s immersion in Victorian “how-to-explore books,” a revelatory genre meant to teach “the acquired art of paying attention,” which is practiced to perfection by each contributor. Henry Shukman’s riveting account of his “atomic safari” in Chernobyl feels
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