- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade) (9 Mar 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0618074678
- ISBN-13: 978-0618074679
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.7 x 2.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 906,599 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in the previous year, selected from magazines, newspapers, and web sites.
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34 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Breathless subway reading
8 Nov 2000
Format:Paperback
I bought this book to get a better idea of what is considered the best in travel writing...and looking back I don't think I was considering it a serious genre, but was rather expecting the sort of self-indulgent, tourist-oriented, glamorized type of article you might find in the average Conde Nast publication. But, with the exception of a few articles (conveniently located at the very end of the book), this collection was terrific. I may not get the titles completely right, but my favorites ranged between cheerful & sweet (Lard is Good for You), detailed and entertaining (night in Central Park), delightfully alcoholic (9am drinking in France), investigative and fascinating (politics in tibet), anthropologically rewarding (the area 50 km outside of Moscow), to downright harrowing (The Last Safari). I'm not going to rave about every piece, because some were too wide-ranging and unfocused for me, and several contributors seemed to have acquired an interest in 'protecting the environment,' but little information about what that actually means.
Overall, if you love collected writings (some don't) and travel (which, oddly enough, some don't), you will enjoy this book. I'm already looking forward to next year's.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
More than Just Travel Tales
31 Dec 2000
Format:Paperback
The title is right: this is some of the best travel writing I have encountered.
It's a collection of short stories, with travel as a common theme. Few are what I'd call tourist guides.
Some of the first few stories stories are about sailboat racing, surviving a night in New York's Central Park, bus riding in Uganda, trucking in tropical Australia, selecting the Panchen Lama, and documentaries about wine and food. There's plenty of variety.
These stories are like good meals: satisfying, pleasant and easy to digest. But they are not lightweight reading. One learns about places and practices that are strange and sometimes disturbing.
It's a book to read in short sessions. I read it at home, in the evenings, but it would be a great to take on a trip.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
An amazing collection
26 Feb 2001
Format:Paperback
After reading this book, I decided I hate travel guides but love travel writing. Travel guides tell you where to go so that you'll run into more pasty, spoiled americans like yourself; travel writing gives you a sense of the land and the people. I loved this collection of essays because it took me to other places and educated me about their history and inhabitants. I learned about the yuppification of Nantucket, the bloody past of Zanzibar, ethnic conflicts in western China, a brutal kidnapping in Uganda, the environmental efforts in Bhutan. Some pieces are frightening; some are humorous. All are enlightening. My only complaint is that I wish more pieces by women had been included -- I would have liked to hear more about the experiences of women in exotic lands. All in all, a fine collection of essays.
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