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"The Best Travel Writing, Volume 10" 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.
List of contents
Publisher’s Preface
James O’Reilly
Introduction
Don George
Friends Who Don’t Bite
Jill K. Robinson
NAMIBIA
The Vanishing Art of Losing Your Way
Sarah Colleen Coury
USA
The Marco Chronicles: To Rome, Without Love
Elizabeth Geoghegan
ITALY
What Is that Thing?
Michael Coolen
THE GAMBIA
Inside the Tower
Keith Skinner
CALIFORNIA
Notes into Lines
Hannah Sheldon-Dean
CZECH REPUBLIC
Into the Hills
Matthew Crompton
INDIA
Show Me, Shouyu
Kelly Luce
JAPAN
Fish Trader Ray
Lisa Alpine
COLOMBIA
My First Trip to the Homeland
Tania Amochaev
RUSSIA
The Tea in Me
Bill Giebler
INDIA
Code 500
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
TEXAS
Diego Forever
Kelly Chastain
SPAIN
Woman Rain
Katherine Jamieson
GUYANA
The Crap Between the Love and Us
Dayna Brayshaw
AT SEA
Neil and I
Gary Buslik
EUROPE
From the Ashes
James Michael Dorsey
CAMBODIA
Ohio House Tour
V. Hansmann
OHIO
I Have a Problem with the Blood of a Woman
Stephanie Glaser
PARIS
Surfing the Millennia
Jeff Greenwald
UTAH
Feliz Cumpleaños
Lavinia Spalding
CUBA
Biko
Ken Matusow
SOUTH AFRICA
Storykeepers
Erin Byrne
PARIS
In Search of Dylan Thomas
Michael Shapiro
WALES
Found
Ben Aultman-Moore
SLOVAKIA
Southern Sandstone
Jessica Normandeau
KENTUCKY
The Bloom of Cancer
Amy Gigi Alexander
USA, PARIS
The Lapham Longshot
Peter Valing
NEW YORK CITY
Into the Cold
Marcia DeSanctis
SWEDEN
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
About the author
James O'Reilly, publisher of Travelers’ Tales, and Larry Habegger, executive editor, have worked as series editors on more than 125 Travelers’ Tales/Solas House titles, winning many awards for excellence. Larry also writes a syndicated newspaper column, "World Travel Watch," which has appeared nationwide since 1985. James and Larry live with their families in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sean O’Reilly is coeditor of many Travelers' Tales books and the author of How to Manage Your DICK: Redirect Sexual Energy and Discover Your More Enlightened, Evolved Self.
Summary
An annual collection of the best travel writing of the year from big names in travel literature and emerging new writers. It presents points of view and perspectives that are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisines and cultures.
