6 edition of The Best American Travel Writing 2006 (The Best American Series) found in the catalog.
Published
October 11, 2006
by Houghton Mifflin
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Written in
Edition Notes
| Contributions | Tim Cahill (Editor), Jason Wilson (Series Editor) |
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Number of Pages | 352 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL7605839M |
| ISBN 10 | 0618582150 |
| ISBN 10 | 9780618582150 |
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The Best American Travel Writing includes André Aciman, Roger Cohen, Lynne Cox, Bronwen Dickey, Kiran Desai, Chuck Klosterman, Tony Perrottet, Seth Stevenson, Patrick Symmes, Calvin Trillin, and others Simon Winchester, editor, a British nonfiction writer living in New York, is the author, most recently, of The Man Who Loved China.
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See the complete Best American Travel Writing series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. Tim Cahill writes in his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing“‘Story’ is the essence of the travel essay. Stories are the way we organize the chaos in our lives, orchestrate voluminous factual material, and — if we are very good — shed some light on the human condition.”.
Tim Cahill writes in his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing"'Story' is the essence of the travel essay. Stories are the way we organize the chaos in our lives, orchestrate voluminous factual material, and -- if we are very good -- shed some light on the human condition.".
Book Summary: The title of this book is The Best American Travel Writing and it was written by Jason Wilson (Editor), Tim Cahill (Editor). This particular edition is in a Hardcover format.
This books publish date is and it has a suggested retail price of $ In his introduction to The Best American Travel Writingeditor Anthony Bourdain writes that the pieces that spoke the loudest and most powerfully to me were usually evocative of the darker side, those moments fearful, sublime, and absurd; the small epiphanies familiar to the full-time traveler, interspersed by a sense of dislocationand the strange, unholy need to record the experience/5(15).
The Best American Travel Writing includes William Least-Heat Moon • Ian Frazier • John McPhee • William T. Vollmann • Simon Winchester • Tom Bissell • Madison Smartt Bell • Timothy Bascom • Pam Houston • and othersJamaica Kincaid, guest editor, is the author of numerous award-winning works, including the memoirs My.
Our fascination with travel has never been so well represented as in this new addition to the Best American series: a wide-ranging compendium of the best travel writing published inculled from more than three hundred magazines, newspapers, and Web sites.
This first collection of THE BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING reads like a good novel. “Travel is not about finding something. It’s about getting lost -- that is, it is about losing yourself in a place and a moment.
The little things that tether you to what’s familiar are gone, and you become a conduit through which the sensation of the place is felt.” -- from the introduction by Susan OrleanThe twenty pieces in this year’s collection showcase the best travel writing.
The 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 pieces to publish.
Travel writing is probably my favorite genre of books, and the Best American Travel Writing series form Houghton Mifflin provides the best of travel writing appearing in magazines and journals during the year.
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