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The Best American Travel Writing 2016

✍ Scribed by Bryson, Bill (editor)

Book ID: 108913339
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Tongue: English
Weight: 2 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780544812093

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✦ Synopsis

Why do I travel? Why does anyone of us travel? Bill Bryson poses these questions in his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2016 , and though he admits, "I wasn't at all sure I knew the answer," they are questions worthy of examination. While the various contributors to this collection all travel for different reasons, one thing is for certain--they come back with stories. Whether traversing the Arctic by dogsled, attending a surreal film festival in North Korea, or strolling the streets of a fast-changing Havana, their insights into the world and the human condition are illuminating and enthralling, providing an answer: This is why I like to travel.
The Best American Travel Writing 2016 includes __ Michael Chabon, Alice Gregory, Paul Theroux, Dave Eggers, Helen Macdonald, Sara Corbett, Stephanie Pearson,Thomas Chatterton Williams, Pico Iyer, and others
BILL BRYSON, guest editor, is the best-selling author of...

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