The Best American Travel Writing 2016 - by Bill Bryson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A collection of the best travel writing by American authors written in 2015<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Why do I travel? Why does anyone of us travel? </i>Bill Bryson poses these questions in his introduction to <i>The Best American Travel Writing 2016</i>, and though he admits, "I wasn't at all sure I knew the answer," they are questions worthy of examination. While the various contributors to this collection all travel for different reasons, one thing is for certain--they come back with stories. Whether traversing the Arctic by dogsled, attending a surreal film festival in North Korea, or strolling the streets of a fast-changing Havana, their insights into the world and the human condition are illuminating and enthralling, providing an answer: <i>This is why I like to travel</i>. <p/><i>The Best American Travel Writing 2016</i> includes<i> </i>Michael Chabon, Alice Gregory, Paul Theroux, Dave Eggers, Helen Macdonald, Sara Corbett, Stephanie Pearson, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Pico Iyer, <i>and others</i> <p/>BILL BRYSON, guest editor, is the best-selling author of <i>A Walk in the Woods; A Short History of Nearly Everything;</i> <i>One Summer: America, 1927;</i> <i>The Road to Little Dribbling</i><i>;</i> and numerous other books. <p/>JASON WILSON, series editor, is the author of <i>Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits; Spaghetti on the Wall;</i> and the forthcoming <i>Why Wine Matters.</i> He has written for the <i>Washington Post Magazine, The New Yorker</i>, the <i>New York Times</i>, and many other publications, and has won awards for Best Food Column from the Association of Food Journalists four times.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>The Best American Series<br /><br /><br /><i>Why do I travel? Why does anyone of us travel? </i>Bill Bryson poses these questions in his introduction to <i>The Best American Travel Writing 2016</i>, and though he admits, I wasn t at all sure I knew the answer, they are questions worthy of examination. While the various contributors to this collection all travel for different reasons, one thing is for certain they come back with stories. Whether traversing the Arctic by dogsled, attending a surreal film festival in North Korea, or strolling the streets of a fast-changing Havana, their insights into the world and the human condition are illuminating and enthralling, providing an answer: <i>This is why I like to travel</i>.<br /> <i>The Best American Travel Writing 2016</i> includes<br /><br /> Michael Chabon, Alice Gregory, Paul Theroux<br /> Dave Eggers, Helen Macdonald, Sara Corbett, Stephanie Pearson<br /> Thomas Chatterton Williams, Pico Iyer, <i>and others</i><br /><br /> BILL BRYSON, guest editor, is the best-selling author of <i>A Walk in the Woods; A Short History of Nearly Everything;</i><i>One Summer: America, 1927;</i><i>The Road to Little Dribbling</i><i>;</i> and numerous other books.<br /> <br /> JASON WILSON, series editor, is the author of <i>Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits; Spaghetti on the Wall;</i> and the forthcoming <i>Why Wine Matters.</i> He has written for the <i>Washington Post Magazine, The New Yorker</i>, the <i>New York Times</i>, and many other publications, and has won awards for Best Food Column from the Association of Food Journalists four times.<br /> "<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>JASON WILSON, series editor, is the author of <i>Boozehound </i>and the founding editor of <i>The Smart Set </i>and <i>Table Matters.</i> <p/> BILL BRYSON is the best-selling author of <i>A Walk in the Woods, A Short History of Nearly Everything </i>and numerous other books. <p/>
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