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The Best American Travel Writing 2010 (2010)

by Bill Buford(Favorite Author)

3.6 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0547333358 (ISBN13: 9780547333359)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Mariner Books

review 1: Editor Buford tries to preempt the issue by saying he's defining 'travel writing' broadly, but this collection employs it so widely as to make the term useless. I'm not sure how a New Yorker article about the mortgage crisis in Florida qualifies. On the other hand, there are some gems here: Patrick Symmes on Emilio-Romagna, Susan Orlean on the donkeys of Morocco, David Owen on a rediscovered 19th-century golf course on an island off Scotland. That, of course, is the benefit of collections -- skip the stories that leave you unimpressed.
review 2: I've been reading this series since it came out, and have enjoyed the whirlwind travel experience around the world it gives me every year. Yet, I agree with Katie that it's hit and miss. I don't have much interest in ba... morets in Suriname or giant cruise ships, though those pieces were mildly interesting. Most of the best pieces -- on Siberia and real estate in Florida -- I'd already read in their original publications. less

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