The Best Travel Writing 2010: True Stories from Around the World

✍ Scribed by James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger, Sean O'Reilly, William Dalrymple

• Publisher: Travelers' Tales
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 377
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Best Travel Writing 2010 is the seventh volume in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing — from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine. In The Best Travel Writing 2010 readers will explore the mysteries of superstition in Cameroon, discover the meaning of life with an Irish carpenter on a long flight, take adopted children to Korea on a Homeland Tour, delve deep into a sacred Japanese pilgrimage, travel solo in Panama's forbidding Darien jungle, comprehend the nuances of bargaining in Senegal...and much more.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents......Page 10
Publisher's Preface......Page 14
Introduction......Page 18
1......Page 30
2......Page 45
3......Page 54
4......Page 74
5......Page 80
6......Page 100
7......Page 107
8......Page 119
9......Page 129
10......Page 139
11......Page 149
12......Page 178
13......Page 187
14......Page 206
15......Page 212
16......Page 219
17......Page 226
18......Page 256
19......Page 266
20......Page 273
21......Page 284
22......Page 294
23......Page 307
24......Page 314
25......Page 333
26......Page 338
27......Page 360
28......Page 365
Acknowledgments......Page 374
About the Editors......Page 377