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The Best American Travel Writing (Paperback, 2007 ed.)
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The Best American Travel Writing (Paperback, 2007 ed.)
Series: Best American
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"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 Orlean
The twenty pieces in this year's collection showcase the best
travel writing from 2006. George Saunders travels to India to
witness firsthand a fifteen-year-old boy who has been meditating
motionless under a tree for months without food or water, and who
many followers believe is the reincarnation of the Buddha. Matthew
Power reveals trickle-down economics at work in a Philippine
garbage dump. Jason Anthony describes the challenges of everyday
life in Vostok, the coldest place on earth, where temperatures dip
as low as minus-129 degrees and where, in midsummer, minus-20
degrees is considered a heat wave.
David Halberstam, in one of his last published essays, recalls how
an inauspicious Saigon restaurant changed the way he and other
reporters in Vietnam saw the world. Ian Frazier analyzes why we get
sick when traveling in out-of-the-way places. And Kevin Fedarko
embarks on a drug-fueled journey in Djibouti, chewing psychotropic
foliage in "the worst place on earth."
Closer to home, Steve Friedman profiles a 410-pound man who set out
to walk cross-country to lose weight and find happiness. Rick Bass
chases the elusive concept of the West in America, and Jonathan
Stern takes a hilarious Lonely Planet approach to his small
Manhattan apartment.
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