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The Best American Travel Writing 2011 (2011)

by Sloane Crosley(Favorite Author)

3.42 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0547333366 (ISBN13: 9780547333366)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Mariner Books

review 1: Wide ranging and fun, or gruesome, as case my be, and also pretty mainstream, no really edgy or alternative views here. Although david baez in Nicaragua and mscha berlinski in Haiti and vollmann and Kurdistan are looking at hard truths and sticky situations! Yeah Kurdistan, bet you didn’t even know it existed. Fun stuff by tea obreht looking for vampires in Serbia, Justin nobel looking for authenticity in nunavik, annie proulx looking for cougars in Wyoming, gary shteyngart looking nightlife in tel aviv etc Good edition for a mix of super-decadent and super miserable.
review 2: The editors have a different idea about what travel writing is than I do. I wanted to read more stories about people going to places where they did not live, primarily for their own ... morerecreation and enjoyment and edification. Some of the articles included here are well written but read more like news stories. One essay involves no travel at all, unless you count the author's walks around her neighborhood, which I don't. I did quite enjoy several of the pieces, including ones about NASCAR, Saudi Arabia, and Italy. less

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