Bibliograph

The best travel writing, true stories from around the world

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Label

The best travel writing, true stories from around the world

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The best travel writing

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

818855696

Series statement

Best Travel Writing

Sub title

true stories from around the world

Summary

The Best Travel Writing, Volume 9 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

Table Of Contents

Table of Contents; Publisher's Preface; Introduction: It Lives, Tim Cahill; The Offer that Refused Me, Marcia DeSanctis; Rabies, John Calderazzo; Vanishing Vienna, Peter Wortsman; Mysterious Fast Mumble, Bruce Berger; Spirals: Memoir of a Celtic Soul, Erin Byrne; A Chip off the Old Bloc, David Farley; Seal Seeking, Anna Wexler; Precious Metal: Me and My Nobel, Tom Miller; The Babushkas of Chernobyl, Holly Morris; How I Got My Oh-La-La, Colette O'Connor; The Ghosts of Alamos, Lavinia Spalding; Engagement Ceremony, Carol Severino; My Black Boots, Juliet EastlandZombies on Kilimanjaro, Tim WardTraveling to Mary, Amy Weldon; Hiking in Grizzly Country- Or Not, John Flynn; Escape, Gary Buslik; Mahnmal, Mardith J. Louisell; Desert Convoy, Erika Connor; The Land of T.M.I., A.E. Baer; Six Syllables, Angie Chuang; Catalina, Matthew Gavin Frank; Caribbean Two-Step, Conner Gorry; Notes on My Father, Kate McCahill; Where Things Happen, Pat Ryan; Negrita, Richard Sterling; What the Trees Try to Tell Us We Are, Jessica Wilson; Acknowledgments; About the Editors

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