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Ten years of the best travel stories of the year from the Solas Awards bring readers along for journeys that are inspiring, uplifting, and, very often, transformative, all powerful and moving testaments to the richness of our world, its cultures, people, and places.
List of contents
Fishing with Larry
Tom Joseph
Bolivia
Red Lights and a Rose
Joel Carillet
Bangkok
The Bamenda Syndrome
David Torrey Peters
Cameroon
Ashes of San Miguel
Tawni Vee Waters
Mexico
The Memory Bird
Carolyn Kraus
Poland
Protected
Peter Wortsman
Germany
Into the Hills
Matthew Crompton
India
Flight Behavior
Amy Butcher
Nebraska
The Tea in Me
Bill Giebler
India
Oranges and Roses
Amy Gigi Alexander
Paris
Flamenco Form
Nancy Penrose
Spain
Ghost on Ice
Cameron McPherson Smith
Alaska
Discalced
Bruce Berger
Baja
We Wait for Spring, Moldova and Me
Kevin McCaughey
Moldova
Masha
Marcia DeSanctis
Moscow
Spirals: Memoir of a Celtic Soul
Erin Byrne
Ireland
Barren in the Andes
Laura Resau
Ecuador
Fish Trader Ray
Lisa Alpine
The Amazon
Remember This Night
Katherine Jamieson
Guyana
Love and Lies in Iran
Mario Kaiser
Iran
Castles in the Sky
Jennifer Baljko
Barcelona
Philomen and Baucis
Pamela Cordell Avis
France
The Empty Rocker
Kathleen Spivack
Amsterdam
The Train at Night
Gina Briefs-Elgin
Aboard Amtrak
Beneath the Rim
Michael Shapiro
Grand Canyon
Mysterious Fast Mumble
Bruce Berger
Baja
Storykeepers
Erin Byrne
Paris
Moving West, Writing East
Tom Miller
US/Mexico Border
From the Ashes
James Michael Dorsey
Cambodia
Inside the Tower
Keith Skinner
Monterey Peninsula
Deep Travel, Notre Dame
Erin Byrne
Paris
The Good Captain
Glenda Reed
The Pacific Ocean
The Train to Harare
Lance Mason
Botswana
About the author
James O'Reilly, publisher of Travelers' Tales, was born in Oxford, England, and raised in San Francisco. He's visited fifty countries and lived in four, along the way meditating with monks in Tibet, participating in West African voodoo rituals, rafting the Zambezi, and hanging out with nuns in Florence and penguins in Antarctica. He travels whenever he can with his wife and their three daughters. They live in Leavenworth, Washington and Palo Alto, California, where they also publish art games and books for children at Birdcage Press (birdcagepress.com).
Larry Habegger, executive editor of Travelers' Tales, has visited more than fifty countries and six of the seven continents, traveling from the Arctic to equatorial rainforests, the Himalayas to the Dead Sea. In the 1980s he coauthored mystery serials for the San Francisco Examiner with James O'Reilly, and for thirty-one years wrote a syndicated newspaper column, World Travel Watch. Habegger regularly teaches travel writing at workshops and writers conferences, is a principal of the Prose Doctors (prosedoctors .com), and editor in chief of Triporati.com, a destination discovery site. He lives with his family on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco.
Sean O'Reilly is editor-at-large for Travelers’ Tales. He is a former seminarian, stockbroker, and prison instructor who lives in Virginia with his wife and three of their six children. He's had a lifelong interest in philosophy and theology, and is the author of How to Manage Your Destructive Impulses with Cyber Kinetics and Authority. He is also CEO and founder of the Auriga Distribution Group, Johnny Upright, Fifth Access, and Redbrazil.com, a bookselling site.
Summary
Ten years of the best travel stories of the year from the Solas Awards bring readers along for journeys that are inspiring, uplifting, and, very often, transformative, all powerful and moving testaments to the richness of our world, its cultures, people, and places.
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