The best travel writing 2011 : true stories from around the world / edited by James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger, and Sean O'Reilly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Reilly, James.

Habegger, Larry.

O'Reilly, Sean.

Series:

Best Travel Writing

Travelers' tales, 1548-0224

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voyages and travels.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Palo Alto : Travelers' Tales, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Best Travel Writing 2011 is the eighth 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. Sweat, suffer, and fall in love in Guyana, meet a traveler who conducts his own detente in Russian baths, and encounter the light of a stranger in Burma. Further tales include methods

Contents:

Table of Contents; Publisher's Preface; Introduction Seeing the World Anew; The Way of the Mist; Fire and Water; One Day, Three Dead Men; How I Promised Anusha the Smile; Ain't Ready for No Man; The Memory Bird; Camel College; Lanterns of Fear; All in the Same House; Femme in the Vosges; Beneath the Rim; It's the Sauce; Jimmy the Natural; Flyover Country; Educating the Body; Sun Valley with Dad; Alone in India-But Not for Long; Winged Victory; Protected; The Chilean Cliff Carver; Alone, Illegal, and Broke Down; Wilding Horses; In the Fields of My Lai; The Year We Bought Our Hitchhiker

Death RoadShiva and Sadhus at Pashupati Temple; Into the Underworld; Eternity; Acknowledgments; About the Editors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-281-74773-4

9786613790255

1-60952-009-2

OCLC:

761645939