TY - BOOK AU - Macfarlane,Robert AU - Anderson,Sam AU - Bahnson,Fred AU - Brown,Molly McCully AU - Smith,Jackie Bryant AU - Budd,Ken AU - Chayka,Kyle AU - Qāz̤īʹrād,Muzhgān AU - Iduma,Emmanuel AU - Johnson,Lacy M. AU - Jones,Chloé Cooper AU - Wilson,Jason TI - The best American travel writing 2020 T2 - The best American series SN - 9780358362036 PY - 2020/// CY - Boston PB - Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt KW - Travelers' writings, American KW - Travel KW - Periodicals KW - Excerpts KW - Voyages and travels KW - Travel writing KW - lcgft KW - Essays N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-311); Rick Steves wants to set you free / Sam Anderson -- On the road with Thomas Merton / Fred Bahnson -- If you are permanently lost / Molly McCully Brown -- Life, death, and the border patrol / Jackie Bryant Smith -- Volunteer's dilemma / Ken Budd -- My own private Iceland / Kyle Chayka -- Revisiting my grandfather's garden / Mojgan Ghazirad -- To the follower of Cheikh Bamba whom I met in Dakar / Emmanuel Iduma -- How to mourn a glacier / Lacy M. Johnson -- Such perfection / Chloé Cooper Jones -- What I learned in avalanche school / Heidi Julavits -- Glow / James Lasdun -- To hold oneself together / Yiyun Li -- The last of the great American hobos / Jeff MacGregor -- The trillion-dollar nowhere / Ben Mauk -- My father's land / Courtney Desiree Morris -- At the border, no one can know your name / Alejandra Oliva -- The shape of water / Stephanie Pearson -- Who lives in Palermo is Palermo / Ashley Powers -- Climate Signs / Emily Raboteau -- Walking with migrants / Paul Salopek -- Lost in Summerland / Barrett Swanson -- Vacation memories marred by the indelible stain of racism / Shanna B. Tiayon N2 - "The best travel writing essays of 2019 are collected in this volume that explores what it means to travel somewhere new"-- ER -