Best American travel writing 2013

Wilson, Jason, 1974-

Book 2013

Gifted authors don't just tell us about unique or out-of-the-way places; they take us to them, show us what they look like, show us who their people are, and make us feel like we've experienced them.

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ISBN:

9780547808987
0547808984

Description:

xix, 210 pages ; 21 cm

Contents:

Foreword / Jason Wilson
Introduction / Elizabeth Gilbert
A prison, a paradise from New York times magazine / John Jeremiah Sullivan
The bull passes through from Morning news / Kevin Chroust
The way I've come from Legal studies forum / Judy Copeland
Blot out from Creative nonfiction / Colleen Kinder
The year I didn't from Gulf Coast / Daniel Tyx
Tea and kidnapping from Atlantic / Sarah A. Topol
The paid piper from T magazine / Grant Stoddard
Dentists without borders from New Yorker / David Sedaris
Confessions of a packing minimalist from Travel + Leisure / Lynn Yaeger
Summerland from Travel + Leisure / Peter Jon Lindberg
The wild dogs of Istanbul from Smart set / Bernd Brunner
Bombing Sarajevo from Outside / Dimiter Kenarov
Vietnam's bowl of secrets from Afar / David Farley
Babu on the bad road from Virginia quarterly review / Jesse Dukes
The pippiest place on earth from New York times magazine / Sam Anderson
Dreaming of El Dorado from Virginia quarterly review / Marie Arana
Caliph of the tricksters from Harper's magazine / Christopher de Ballaigue
A farewell to yarns from Outside / Ian Frazier
Pirate City from Paris review / Rich Cohen
Contributors' notes
Notable travel writing of 2012

Control Number:

1890465

Other Authors:

Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969- editor
Wilson, Jason, 1974-

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