The Best Travel Writing: True Stories from Around the World

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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. Includes winners from the annual Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing.

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"Travelers' Tales books luxuriate in that complicated, beautiful, shadowy place where the best stories begin, and the most compelling characters roam free." (ForeWord Magazine) "Here in these pages is wonder and delight writ large - and a series of affirmations of a magnificent world... This book is a vivid and delightful testament to just why the world is in essence a wonderfully pleasing place, how its people are an inseparable part of its countless pleasures, and how travel is not so much hard work as wondrous fun...." (Simon Winchester)"

Author Bio

James O'Reilly, publisher of Travelers' Tales, and Larry Habegger, executive editor, have worked as series editors on more than 125 Travelers' Tales/Solas House titles, winning many awards for excellence. Larry also writes a syndicated newspaper column, "World Travel Watch," which has appeared nationwide since 1985. James and Larry live with their families in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sean O'Reilly is coeditor of many Travelers' Tales books and the author of How to Manage Your DICK: Redirect Sexual Energy and Discover Your More Enlightened, Evolved Self.

Introduction author Tim Cahill is one of America's foremost travel and adventure writers. He is the author of many books, among them Jaguars Ripped My Flesh; A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg; Road Fever; Pecked To Death By Ducks; Pass The Butterworms; Hold The Enlightenment; Lost in my own Backyard: a Walk in Yellowstone National Park; and the editor of Not So Funny When It Happened: the Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (Travelers' Tales).