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The best American travel writing 2020 / edited and with an introduction by Robert Macfarlane ; Jason Wilson, series editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Best American seriesPublisher: Boston : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020Description: xxii, 311 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780358362036
  • 0358362032
Related works:
  • Container of (work): Anderson, Sam, 1977- Rick Steves wants to set you free
  • Container of (work): Bahnson, Fred, 1973- On the road with Thomas Merton
  • Container of (work): Brown, Molly McCully, 1991- If you are permanently lost
  • Container of (work): Smith, Jackie Bryant, 1941- Life, death, and the border patrol
  • Container of (work): Budd, Ken. Volunteer's dilemma
  • Container of (work): Chayka, Kyle. My own private island
  • Container of (work): Qāz̤īʹrād, Muzhgān. Revisiting my grandfather's garden
  • Container of (work): Iduma, Emmanuel. To the follower of Cheikh Bamba whom I met in Dakar
  • Container of (work): Johnson, Lacy M., 1978- How to mourn a glacier
  • Container of (work): Jones, Chloé Cooper. Such perfection
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "The best travel writing essays of 2019 are collected in this volume that explores what it means to travel somewhere new"-- Provided by publisher
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 910.4 B561 Available 33111009767191
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 910.4 B561 Available 33111010432272
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The year's best travel writing, as chosen by series editor Jason Wilson and guest editor Robert Macfarlane.



Writing, reading, and dreaming about travel have surged, writes Robert MacFarlane in his introduction to the Best American Travel Writing 2020. From an existential reckoning in avalanche school, to an act of kindness at the Mexican-American border, to a moral dilemma at a Kenyan orphanage, the journeys showcased in this collection are as spiritual as they are physical. These stories provide not just remarkable entertainment, but also, as MacFarlane says, deep comfort, "carrying hope, creating connections, transporting readers to other-worlds, and imagining alternative presents and alternative futures."

The Best American Travel 2020 includes

HEIDI JULAVITS * YIYUN LI * PAUL SALOPEK * LACY JOHNSON *

EMMANUEL IDUMA * JON MOOALLEM * EMILY RABOTEAU and others

"The best travel writing essays of 2019 are collected in this volume that explores what it means to travel somewhere new"-- Provided by publisher

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.

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