Number-one _New York Times_ best-selling author of _Eat, Pray, Love_ and _Committed: A Love Story_ , Elizabeth Gilbert transports readers to far-flung locales with this collection of the year's lushest and most inspiring travel writing.
The Best American Travel Writing 2014
โ Scribed by Theroux, Paul (editor)
- Book ID
- 108570625
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780544330153
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โฆ Synopsis
"Travel connoisseurs divide the world into those places they've been dying to visit or revisit and places they'd never set foot in but are glad someone else did. This year's volume of travel writing . . . focuses mostly on the latter with derring-do dispatches." -- USA Today
A far-ranging collection of the best travel writing pieces published in 2013, collected by guest editor Paul Theroux. 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 to a new place. Readers know that there is simply no other option when they want great travel writing.
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