| The Best Travel Writing: True Stories from Around the World 2010 Edition Contributor(s): O'Reilly, James (Editor), Habegger, Larry (Editor), O'Reilly, Sean (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1932361731 ISBN-13: 9781932361735 Publisher: Travelers' Tales OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues |
| Dewey: 910.41 |
| Series: Best Travel Writing |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.85 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Best Travel Writing 2010 is the seventh volume 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 cuisine. In The Best Travel Writing 2010 readers will explore the mysteries of superstition in Cameroon, discover the meaning of life with an Irish carpenter on a long flight, take adopted children to Korea on a Homeland Tour, delve deep into a sacred Japanese pilgrimage, travel solo in Panama's forbidding Darien jungle, comprehend the nuances of bargaining in Senegal...and much more. |