The Best American Travel Writing 2013

Number-one New York Times best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed: A Love Story, Elizabeth Gilbert transports readers to far-flung locales with this collection of the year’s lushest and most inspiring travel writing.

About the author

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.

ELIZABETH GILBERT is the author of the story collection Pilgrims, a finalist for the 1998 PEN/Hemingway Award. It was a New York Times Notable Book and was listed as one of the Most Intriguing Books of 1997 by Glamour magazine. Pilgrims also won best first fiction awards from the Paris Review, the Southern Review, and Ploughshares. Her fiction has been published in Esquire, Story, GQ, Paris Review, Ploughshares, and the Mississippi Review. She is also a Pushcart Prize winner, and her nonfiction writing has earned her a 1999 National Magazine Award nomination. Annie Proulx called Gilbert a "young writer of incandescent talent." She lives in New York's Hudson Valley.

Summary

Number-one New York Times best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed: A Love Story, Elizabeth Gilbert transports readers to far-flung locales with this collection of the year’s lushest and most inspiring travel writing.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jason Wilson (Editor), Elizabeth Gilbert (Editor), Gilber (Editor), Wilso (Editor), Gilbert (Editor), Wilson (Editor)
• Authors: Sulliva, Chrous, Copeland et al, Jason Wilson, Sullivan, Chroust, Elizabeth Gilbert
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.11.2013
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales
• EAN: 9780547808987
• ISBN: 978-0-547-80898-7
• Pages: 234
• Dimensions (packing): 14 x 21.6 x 1.4 cm
• Weight (packing): 336 g
• Series: Best American Travel Writing (; Best American; Best American Series (R)
• Subjects: Education, History, Linguistics, America, Backlog, Travel writing, Sociolinguistics, Reference works, United States of America, USA, Literary essays, Anthologies: general, Travel and holiday, News media and journalism, Media studies: Journalism, Creative writing and creative writing guides, American Literature, TRAVEL: Essays & Travelogues, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Writing / Authorship, TRAVEL: Reference, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Writing / Fiction Writing, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Journalism, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, EDUCATION: Reference, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Linguistics / Semantics, language study, writing techniques, Writing Craft, biographies memoirs