Best American Travel Writing 2011 [Paperback]

Editor by Wilson, Jason; Crosley, Sloane

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Editorial Reviews

These gifted authors don't just tell us about unique or out-of-the-way places; they take us to them, show us what they look like, show us who their people are, and make us feel like we've experienced them.--"Booklist."

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The hilarious and well-traveled Sloane Crosley, author of the New York Times bestseller I" Was Told There'd be Cake," helms this collection of the genre's gems.

Reviews

From Booklist: Crosley, in her introduction to this year's edition of the popular series, notes that the new obstacle of travel in the age of informationand thus, uberpreparednessis the extinction of the unexpected. Crosley sets the hopeful traveler's tone with Andr' Aciman's serendipity-filled adventure to hunt down the ghost of a Monet subjecta villa on the Italian Riviera. Emily Witt's short-attention-span-friendly Miami Party Boom earns points for most creative format, each interlude chronicling a social event and its characters. There's much affection for contributors' subjects to be found herefrom Mischa Berlinski's Haiti, and the young man he befriends there, to T'a Obreht's Serbia, where she reveals a decidedly unique take on American vampire mania. Readers, beware: few may feel courageous enough to attempt their own bird-watching journal after a flight in the tender grip of Annie Proulx's enchanting diary of an aviary Wyoming year. Crosley reminds readers that the nature of the world is that it will provide that valuable introductory course only once, and her selections succeed in piquing the armchair traveler's wanderlust.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)