The Best American Travel Writing 2014: A Collection Guest Edited by Paul Theroux―Wonder, Humor, Exhilaration (The Best American Series ®) - Softcover

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9780544330153: The Best American Travel Writing 2014: A Collection Guest Edited by Paul Theroux―Wonder, Humor, Exhilaration (The Best American Series ®)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0544330153 ISBN 13: 9780544330153
Verlag: Mariner Books, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

“Travel connoisseurs divide the world into those places they’ve been dying to visit or revisit and places they’d never set foot in but are glad someone else did. This year’s volume of travel writing . . . focuses mostly on the latter with derring-do dispatches.” — USA Today

A far-ranging collection of the best travel writing pieces published in 2013, collected by guest editor Paul Theroux. The Best American Travel Writing consistently includes a wide variety of pieces, illuminating the wonder, humor, fear, and exhilaration that greets all of us when we embark on a journey to a new place. Readers know that there is simply no other option when they want great travel writing.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

JASON WILSON, series editor, is the author of Godforsaken Grapes, Boozehound, and The Cider Revival. He is the creator of the newsletter and podcast Everyday Drinking. Wilson has been the series editor of The Best American Travel Writing since its inception in 2000. His work can be found at jasonwilson.com.



Paul Theroux is the author of many highly acclaimed books. His novels include Burma Sahib, The Bad Angel Brothers, The Lower River, Jungle Lovers, and The Mosquito Coast, and his renowned travel books include Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, On the Plain of Snakes, and Dark Star Safari. He lives in Hawaii and on Cape Cod.

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The Best American Series

In this era of “listicles” (“Ten Best Waterslides on Cruise Ships!”) and travel articles that are little more than boasting of luxury hotels and restaurants, guest editor Paul Theroux is more interested in “the traveler’s baptism of fire.” The stories in The Best American Travel Writing 2014 take readers from Somalian prisons to Greyhound bus terminals, from the rivers of the Alaskan wilderness to the vanishing rainforests of Brazil, and to so many places in between. At turns hilarious, riveting, and philosophical, the stories in this collection “illustrate the defiance of the traveler who, against the odd, sets off to find something new to write about.”

The Best American Travel Writing 2014 includes

Elif Batuman, Julia Cooke, A. A. Gill, Janine di Giovanni
Peter LaSalle, Andrew McCarthy, Michael Paterniti, Stephanie Pearson
Gary Shteyngart, Colson Whitehead, and others

[INSERT AUTHOR PHOTO] PAUL THEROUX, guest editor, is the author of many renowned travel books, including The Last Train to Zona Verde, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Dark Star Safari, and The Great Railway Bazaar. His acclaimed novels include The Mosquito Coast, Hotel Honolulu, and The Lower River.
JASON WILSON, series editor, writes the spirits column for the Washington Post and is the editor of The Smart Set. He is also the author of Boozehound.

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Verlag
Mariner Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0544330153
ISBN 13 
9780544330153
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
336
Herausgeber
Theroux Paul
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