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The Best Travel Writing, Volume 11 is the latest in the annual
Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's
best travel writing from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new
writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes
encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and
misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic
cuisines and cultures. Includes winners from the annual Solas
Awards for Best Travel Writing. Introduction by Rolf Potts In The
Best Travel Writing, Volume 11, readers will: Piece together the
puzzle of life in rural Cambodia Reawaken the joy of travel on a
bus ride through Mexico Reexamine war memories with former soldiers
in Vietnam Learn the ropes and the art of sailing with a "good
captain" on the Pacific Find a true soul sister in the highlands of
Ecuador Follow Vincent van Gogh's footsteps in France Survive (or
not) a home invasion in Brazil...and much more
This title launches a new Travelers’ Tales series, an annual
collection of the best travel writing, to celebrate ten years of
publishing the world’s best travel writing—from Nobel Prize
winners to complete unknowns. Many of these stories will be
published for the first time in this book, while some will have
appeared in other Travelers’ Tales titles or elsewhere. But the
common thread connecting them will be fresh, lively storytelling
and compelling narrative to make the reader laugh, weep, wish he
were there, or be glad he wasn’t. These 25 stories cover the
globe, from battling snakes in Costa Rica to probing your own
relation to the caste system in India to charting your way through
the "oldest tourist trap in the world" in Egypt to learning to cook
an octopus in Mexico. The writers come from many countries, not
just the United States, so the points of view and perspectives are
global in reach. Themes are as eclectic as all of our books,
including stories that encompass spiritual growth, absolute
hilarity and misadventure, high adventure, romance, women’s solo
journeys, stories of service to humanity, family travel, and
encounters with exotic cuisine.
The Best Travel Writing, Volume 11 is the latest in the annual
Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's
best travel writing from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new
writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes
encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and
misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic
cuisines and cultures. Includes winners from the annual Solas
Awards for Best Travel Writing. Introduction by Rolf Potts In The
Best Travel Writing, Volume 11, readers will: Piece together the
puzzle of life in rural Cambodia Reawaken the joy of travel on a
bus ride through Mexico Reexamine war memories with former soldiers
in Vietnam Learn the ropes and the art of sailing with a "good
captain" on the Pacific Find a true soul sister in the highlands of
Ecuador Follow Vincent van Gogh's footsteps in France Survive (or
not) a home invasion in Brazil...and much more
This book will appeal to: lovers of travel literature the thousands
of writers who entered the Solas Awards over the past ten years and
counting readers who love powerful, inspiring true stories about
life and the world
Since 1993, readers have looked to Travelers' Tales for
award-winning stories about the world, adventure, spirituality, and
the transformative experiences that accompany life on the road. The
Best Travel Writing 2008 is the fifth volume in the series launched
in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing — much of it
never before published — from Nobel Prize winners to up-and-coming
new writers. The stories provide a perspective and depth of
understanding that can only come from people who have actually been
there, and encompass everything from high adventure to
misadventure, spiritual growth to romance, service to humanity to
encounters with exotic cuisines. Reading the book is like sitting
in a café filled with fellow travelers, swapping tales about
destinations near and far — readers emerge changed, eager for more,
and ready to plan their next trips.
For ten years the editors of Travelers' Tales have run a writing
competition to find the best travel story of the year: The Solas
Awards. Over those years, thousands of stories have come across
their desks, from writers famous and unknown, covering all corners
of the globe with stories of adventure and discovery, love and
loss, humor and absurdity, grief and joy. In this collection appear
all of the top prize winners of the last ten years, stories that
bring readers along for journeys that are inspiring, uplifting,
and, very often, transformative. These tales are powerful, moving
testaments to the richness of our world, its cultures, people, and
places. In this book, readers will: Deposit a loved one's ashes in
a Bolivian River Find the Celtic soul you never knew you had in
rural Ireland Grope through the maze of sorcery and madness in
Cameroon Rediscover your sense of self on a return to Russia after
many years away Follow the spirit of John Wesley Powell down the
Grand Canyon in Arizona Engage loss and the specter of death in
Mexico Face your deepest fears alone in an Alaskan winter Encounter
the realities of prostitution in Thailand Absorb the rhythms and
soul of Flamenco in Spain Fall in love with a home in rural France
and make it your own... and much more
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