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The best American travel writing 2021 / edited with an introduction by Padma Lakshmi ; Jason Wilson, series editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Best American seriesPublisher: Boston : Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021Description: xxxii, 265 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780358361312
  • 0358361311
Other title:
  • American travel writing 2021
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Inside the nightmare voyage of the Diamond Princess / Doug Bock Clark, from GQ -- Mississippi: a poem, in days / Kiese Makeba Laymon, from Vanity Fair -- The warmth of a lost world / Leslie Jamison, from The New York Times Magazine -- To the swimmer in the Borneo rainforest / Meghan Gunn, from Off Assignment -- I decided to leave / Meghan Daum, from GEN -- The New York you once knew is gone. The one you loved remains / Glynnis MacNicol, from GEN -- Good bread / Bill Buford, from the New Yorker -- Food, it turns out, has little to do with why I love to travel / Noah Galuten, from Eater -- The people of Las Vegas / Amanda Fortini, from The Believer -- In the City of Saints / Sarah Khan, from Travel + Leisure -- Reindeer at the end of the world / Bathsheba Demuth, from Emergence Magazine -- Senegal's beating heart / Jim Benning, from Westways -- Five oceans, five deeps / Ben Taub, from The New Yorker -- Water or sky? / Meg Bernhard, from Hazlitt -- California's weed country is lit / Jackie Bryant, from Cannabitch -- Youtopia / Carrie Battan, from Outside -- Can travel become an addiction? / Natalie Stoclet, from Playboy -- On the complicated questions around writing about travel / Intan Paramaditha, from Literary Hub -- Out there, nobody can hear you scream / Latria Graham, fromOutside -- The losing coast / Elizabeth Miller, from The Statesider -- To the doctor of Bujumbura's quarantine hotel / Jina Moore, from Off Assignment -- A change in perspective / Sarah Moss, from Travel + Leisure -- Thousand fields of grain / Ligaya Mishan, from T: The New York Times Style Magazine -- A fear-filled lockdown / Paul Theroux, from The New York Times -- Wanderlust / Jon Lee Anderson, from The New Yorker.
Summary: "The essays in this year's Best American Travel Writing are an antidote to the isolation of the year 2020, giving us views into experiences unlike our own and taking us on journeys we could not take ourselves. From the lively music of West Africa, to the rich culinary traditions of Muslims in Northwest China, to the thrill of a hunt in Alaska, this collection is a treasure trove of diverse places and cultures, providing the comfort, excitement, and joy of feeling elsewhere." -- Provided by publisher.
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 910.4 B561 Available 33111010627640
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 910.4 B561 Available 33111010774376
Adult Book Adult Book Northport Library NonFiction 910.4 B561 Available 33111009869922
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"The beauty of good writing is that it transports the reader inside another person's experience in some other physical place and culture," writes Padma Lakshmi in her introduction, "and, at its best, evokes a palpable feeling of being in a specific moment in time and space." The essays in this year's Best American Travel Writing are an antidote to the isolation of the year 2020, giving us views into experiences unlike our own and taking us on journeys we could not take ourselves. From the lively music of West Africa, to the rich culinary traditions of Muslims in Northwest China, to the thrill of a hunt in Alaska, this collection is a treasure trove of diverse places and cultures, providing the comfort, excitement, and joy of feeling elsewhere.

THE BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING 2021 INCLUDES KIESE MAKEBA LAYMON * LESLIE JAMISON * BILL BUFORD * JON LEE ANDERSON * MEGHAN DAUM LIGAYA MISHAN * PAUL THEROUX and others

Includes bibliographical references.

Inside the nightmare voyage of the Diamond Princess / Doug Bock Clark, from GQ -- Mississippi: a poem, in days / Kiese Makeba Laymon, from Vanity Fair -- The warmth of a lost world / Leslie Jamison, from The New York Times Magazine -- To the swimmer in the Borneo rainforest / Meghan Gunn, from Off Assignment -- I decided to leave / Meghan Daum, from GEN -- The New York you once knew is gone. The one you loved remains / Glynnis MacNicol, from GEN -- Good bread / Bill Buford, from the New Yorker -- Food, it turns out, has little to do with why I love to travel / Noah Galuten, from Eater -- The people of Las Vegas / Amanda Fortini, from The Believer -- In the City of Saints / Sarah Khan, from Travel + Leisure -- Reindeer at the end of the world / Bathsheba Demuth, from Emergence Magazine -- Senegal's beating heart / Jim Benning, from Westways -- Five oceans, five deeps / Ben Taub, from The New Yorker -- Water or sky? / Meg Bernhard, from Hazlitt -- California's weed country is lit / Jackie Bryant, from Cannabitch -- Youtopia / Carrie Battan, from Outside -- Can travel become an addiction? / Natalie Stoclet, from Playboy -- On the complicated questions around writing about travel / Intan Paramaditha, from Literary Hub -- Out there, nobody can hear you scream / Latria Graham, fromOutside -- The losing coast / Elizabeth Miller, from The Statesider -- To the doctor of Bujumbura's quarantine hotel / Jina Moore, from Off Assignment -- A change in perspective / Sarah Moss, from Travel + Leisure -- Thousand fields of grain / Ligaya Mishan, from T: The New York Times Style Magazine -- A fear-filled lockdown / Paul Theroux, from The New York Times -- Wanderlust / Jon Lee Anderson, from The New Yorker.

"The essays in this year's Best American Travel Writing are an antidote to the isolation of the year 2020, giving us views into experiences unlike our own and taking us on journeys we could not take ourselves. From the lively music of West Africa, to the rich culinary traditions of Muslims in Northwest China, to the thrill of a hunt in Alaska, this collection is a treasure trove of diverse places and cultures, providing the comfort, excitement, and joy of feeling elsewhere." -- Provided by publisher.

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