The Best Travel Writing: True Stories from Around the World

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

• Publisher: Travelers' Tales
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 343
• Series: Best Travel Writing, 9
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Best Travel Writing, Volume 9 is the latest 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 cuisines and cultures.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Publisher’s Preface
Introduction: It Lives, Tim Cahill
The Offer that Refused Me, Marcia DeSanctis
Rabies, John Calderazzo
Vanishing Vienna, Peter Wortsman
Mysterious Fast Mumble, Bruce Berger
Spirals: Memoir of a Celtic Soul, Erin Byrne
A Chip off the Old Bloc, David Farley
Seal Seeking, Anna Wexler
Precious Metal: Me and My Nobel, Tom Miller
The Babushkas of Chernobyl, Holly Morris
How I Got My Oh-La-La, Colette O'Connor
The Ghosts of Alamos, Lavinia Spalding
Engagement Ceremony, Carol Severino
My Black Boots, Juliet Eastland
Zombies on Kilimanjaro, Tim Ward
Traveling to Mary, Amy Weldon
Hiking in Grizzly Country— Or Not, John Flynn
Escape, Gary Buslik
Mahnmal, Mardith J. Louisell
Desert Convoy, Erika Connor
The Land of T.M.I., A.E. Baer
Six Syllables, Angie Chuang
Catalina, Matthew Gavin Frank
Caribbean Two-Step, Conner Gorry
Notes on My Father, Kate McCahill
Where Things Happen, Pat Ryan
Negrita, Richard Sterling
What the Trees Try to Tell Us We Are, Jessica Wilson
Acknowledgments
About the Editors