The Best American Travel Writing 2009 - by Simon Winchester (Paperback)

About the Book

Acclaimed writer Winchester brings his keen literary eye to this year's volume of the finest travel writing from the past year, providing a collection that is full of insights, humor, the exotic and distant, and the ordinary and near ("Library Journal").

Book Synopsis

Acclaimed writer Simon Winchester brings his keen literary eye to this year's volume of the finest travel writing from the past year. "Full of insights, humor, the exotic and distant, and the ordinary and near" (Library Journal) this collection finds "a perfect mix of exotic locale and elegant prose" (Publishers Weekly).

From the Back Cover

The Best American Series
first, best, and best-selling

The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected and most popular of its kind.

The Best American Travel Writing 2009 includes Andre Aciman, Roger Cohen, Lynne Cox, Bronwen Dickey, Kiran Desai, Chuck Klosterman, Tony Perrottet, Seth Stevenson, Patrick Symmes, Calvin Trillin, and others

Simon Winchester, editor, a British nonfiction writer living in New York, is the author, most recently, ofThe Man Who Loved China. He is currently working on a biography of the Atlantic Ocean.

Look for the other best-selling titles in the Best American series:

The Best American Comics
The Best American Essays
The Best American Mystery Stories
The Best American Nonrequired Reading
The Best American Science and Nature Writing
The Best American Short Stories
The Best American Sports Writing

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