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The best American travel writing 2020

Macfarlane, Robert, 1976- (editor,, writer of introduction.). Anderson, Sam, 1977- Container of (work): Rick Steves wants to set you free. (Added Author). Bahnson, Fred, 1973- Container of (work): On the road with Thomas Merton. (Added Author). Brown, Molly McCully, 1991- Container of (work): If you are permanently lost. (Added Author). Smith, Jackie Bryant, 1941- Container of (work): Life, death, and the border patrol. (Added Author). Budd, Ken. Container of (work): Volunteer's dilemma. (Added Author). Chayka, Kyle. Container of (work): My own private island. (Added Author). Qāz̤īʹrād, Muzhgān. Container of (work): Revisiting my grandfather's garden. (Added Author). Iduma, Emmanuel. Container of (work): To the follower of Cheikh Bamba whom I met in Dakar. (Added Author). Johnson, Lacy M., 1978- Container of (work): How to mourn a glacier. (Added Author). Cooper Jones, Chloé, 1983- Container of (work): Such perfection. (Added Author). Wilson, Jason (Writer on food and travel), (editor.).

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

Record details

ISBN: 9780358362036
ISBN: 0358362032
Physical Description: print
xxii, 311 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher: Boston : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-311).

Formatted Contents Note:

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.