The Best American Travel Writing 2016 Author:Bill Bryson (Editor) A far-ranging collection of the best travel writing pieces published in 2015, collected by guest editor best-selling author Bill Bryson. The Best American Travel Writing consistently includes a wide variety of pieces, illuminating the wonder, humor, fear, and exhilaration that greets all of us when we embark on a journey ... more »to a new place. Each volume promises to “gratify both armchair travelers and the most seasoned and fearless thrill-seekers . . . [with] refreshingly original stories, alternately humorous, nostalgic, exhilarating and horrifying” (Kirkus Reviews). When readers look for top-notch travel writing, they know there is simply no other option.
White guy in a djellaba / Michael Chabon --
How can we find more people like you? / Sara Corbett --
The actual Hollister / Dave Eggers --
Rotten ice / Gretel Ehrlich --
Off Diamond Head / William Finnegan --
Climb every mountain / Alice Gregory --
The foreign spell / Pico Iyer --
The Marlboro men of Chernivtsi / Andrew W. Jones --
What's left behind / Kea Krause --
Hiding from animals / Helen MacDonald --
About face / Patricia Marx --
A cave with a view / D.T. Max --
Born to travel / Freda Moon --
The reddest carpet / Mitch Moxley --
Growing old with the Inuit / Justin Nobel --
The green heaven / Stephanie Pearson --
Darwin's forgotten world --
Tony Perrottet --
Little things that kill you / Steven Rinella --
Swiss dream / David Rowell --
Peak Havana / Patrick Symmes --
Fyodor's guide / Jeffery Tayler --
Return of the mockingbird / Paul Theroux --
Invisible and insidious / William T. Vollman --
In another country / Thomas Chatterton Williams« less