| Description |
xxi, 295 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The best American series |
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Best American series.
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| Note |
"A Mariner original." |
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Reprinted from various periodicals. |
| Summary |
Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in 2017, selected from magazines, newspapers, and web sites. |
| Contents |
Cover story / Elif Batuman -- My Holy Land vacation / Tom Bissell -- Chiefing in Cherokee / Stephanie Elizondo Griest -- Cliffhanger / Peter Frick-Wright -- The ones who left / Jackie Hedeman -- The big leap / Leslie Jamison -- Refugees hear a foreign word: welcome / Jodi Kantor and Catrin Einhorn -- Finding the forgotten / Randall Kenan -- Waiting on a whale at the end of the world / Saki Knafo -- Plum crazy / Gwendolyn Knapp -- Land of the lost / David Kushner -- On the road / Gideon Lewis-Kraus -- The secrets of the wood wide web / Robert Macfarlane -- Volunteering for the harvest / Ann Mah -- The away team / Alexis Okeowo -- A palpable history / Tim Parks -- Eva, she kill her one daughter / Shelley Puhak -- One person means alone / Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers -- Citizen Khan / Kathryn Schulz -- No amount of traffic or Instagrammers or drunks can take the magic out of (semi-) wilderness / Wells Tower -- My father's house / Reggie Ugwu -- The currency of moons / Kim Wyatt. |
| Subject |
Travel writing.
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Travel -- Periodicals -- Excerpts.
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Travelers' writings, American.
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Voyages and travels -- Anecdotes.
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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Travel writing. (OCoLC)fst01155681
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Travelers' writings, American. (OCoLC)fst01155721
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Voyages and travels. (OCoLC)fst01169308
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Travelers' writings.
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Voyages and travels.
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| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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Travel writing.
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Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
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Travel writing. (OCoLC)fst01919983
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| Added Author |
Collins, Lauren (Journalist), editor.
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Wilson, Jason, 1944- series editor.
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Batuman, Elif, 1977- contributor.
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Bissell, Tom, 1974- contributor.
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Elizondo Griest, Stephanie, 1974- contributor.
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Frick-Wright, Peter, contributor.
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Hedeman, Jackie, contributor.
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Jamison, Leslie, 1983- contributor.
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Kantor, Jodi, 1975- contributor.
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Einhorn, Catrin, contributor.
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Kenan, Randall, contributor.
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Knafo, Saki, contributor.
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Knapp, Gwendolyn, 1981- contributor.
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Kushner, David, 1968- contributor.
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Lewis-Kraus, Gideon, contributor.
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Macfarlane, Robert, 1976-
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Mah, Ann, contributor.
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Okeowo, Alexis, contributor.
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Parks, Tim, contributor.
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Puhak, Shelley, contributor.
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Rogers, Elizabeth Lindsey, 1985- contributor.
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Schulz, Kathryn, contributor.
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Tower, Wells, 1973- contributor.
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Ugwu, Reggie, contributor.
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Wyatt, Kim, contributor.
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| ISBN |
1328745732 (paperback) |
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9781328745736 (paperback) |
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