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Paperback The Best American Travel Writing Book

ISBN: 0618118829

ISBN13: 9780618118823

The Best American Travel Writing

(Part of the Best American Travel Writing Series and The Best American Travel Writing (#4) Series)

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More and more readers are discovering the pleasure of armchair travel through the hugely successful Best American Travel Writing, now in its fourth adventurous year. Journey through the 2003 volume from Route 66 to the Arctic; go deep into Poland's Tatra Mountains and through the wildest jungle in Congo. Selections this year are from equally far-flung sources, including Outside, Food & Wine, National Geographic Adventure, Potpourri, and The New Yorker...

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Rated 4 stars
The Armchair Traveler

This book contains several interesting pieces on travel as well as articles about activities related to specific geographical places. I am a fan of Ian Frazier's, especially his book On the Rez, and was glad to see that he was editing this collection. There are three pieces that stand out for me. The first one is called 'Getting Jiggy' and it is about folks who get together on the Seattle area piers and jig for squid. ...

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Rated 5 stars
Broaden your horizons...

This is one of the best books I've read in years. Every night I would randomly open to a different story and be transported. I think the title is a bit misleading, though. This is not full of tourist stories. They are just very well-written articles that happen to take place in a land foreign to the author. For instance, a Jewish woman's journey to the Ukraine to uncover the story of relatives that were killed by the...

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