The Best Travel Writing 2011: True Stories from Around the WorldJames O'Reilly, Larry Habegger, Sean O'Reilly Travelers' Tales, 24 Αυγ 2011 - 352 σελίδες The Best Travel Writing 2011 is the eighth volume 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 cuisine. Sweat, suffer, and fall in love in Guyana, meet a traveler who conducts his own detente in Russian baths, and encounter the light of a stranger in Burma. Further tales include methods on comprehending the nuances of bargaining in Senegal and an archaeologist who digs up her own past in Greece. |
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Aint Ready for No Man | 33 |
The Memory Bird | 44 |
Camel College | 75 |
Lanterns of Fear | 80 |
Alone in IndiaBut Not for Long | 179 |
Winged Victory | 185 |
Protected | 193 |
The Chilean Cliff Carver | 200 |
Alone Illegal and Broke Down | 208 |
Wilding Horses | 231 |
In the Fields of My Lai | 241 |
The Year We Bought Our Hitchhiker | 251 |
All in the Same House | 91 |
Femme in the Vosges | 96 |
Beneath the Rim | 109 |
Its the Sauce | 128 |
Jimmy the Natural | 141 |
Flyover Country | 154 |
Educating the Body | 163 |
Sun Valley with Dad | 169 |
Death Road | 268 |
Shiva and Sadhus at Pashupati Temple | 290 |
Into the Underworld | 301 |
Eternity | 309 |
Acknowledgments | 311 |
About the Editors | 315 |
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