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Title: The Best American Travel Writing 2000 by Jason Wilson, Bill Bryson ISBN: 0-618-07467-8 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 26 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An amazing collection
Comment: After reading this book, I decided I hate travel guides but love travel writing. Travel guides tell you where to go so that you'll run into more pasty, spoiled americans like yourself; travel writing gives you a sense of the land and the people. I loved this collection of essays because it took me to other places and educated me about their history and inhabitants. I learned about the yuppification of Nantucket, the bloody past of Zanzibar, ethnic conflicts in western China, a brutal kidnapping in Uganda, the environmental efforts in Bhutan. Some pieces are frightening; some are humorous. All are enlightening. My only complaint is that I wish more pieces by women had been included -- I would have liked to hear more about the experiences of women in exotic lands. All in all, a fine collection of essays.
Rating: 4
Summary: More than Just Travel Tales
Comment: The title is right: this is some of the best travel writing I have encountered.
It's a collection of short stories, with travel as a common theme. Few are what I'd call tourist guides.
Some of the first few stories stories are about sailboat racing, surviving a night in New York's Central Park, bus riding in Uganda, trucking in tropical Australia, selecting the Panchen Lama, and documentaries about wine and food. There's plenty of variety.
These stories are like good meals: satisfying, pleasant and easy to digest. But they are not lightweight reading. One learns about places and practices that are strange and sometimes disturbing.
It's a book to read in short sessions. I read it at home, in the evenings, but it would be a great to take on a trip.
Rating: 5
Summary: Travels well
Comment: My wife and I came across this CD in preparation for a very long drive to northern Michigan over the July 4th weekend and I am thoroughly pleased with this most-random selection. Aside from David Halberstam's self-absorbed "Nantucket" which barely passes as travel writing let alone good, let alone fresh (it may have helped if he read this piece) the selections were excellent and varied. Bryson's reading of "Winter Rules" nearly had us off the road southbound on US 127 near Midland, and Adamson's reading of the the thoroughly politically/socially incorrect (and excellent) "Weird Karma" nearly put us into a barrier near Ann Arbor on US 23. Thank you Mr. Bryson et al for that travel moment.
Best yet, the table was so wonderfully set by Bryon himself with his reading of "From the people who brought you the killing fields" by Patrick Symmes. I can only express my appreciation of this selection in the memories it brought back to my days in the 1980s and the wonderfully in-poor-taste song by the Dead Kennedys "A Holiday in Cambodia." Wonderful writing does that to you.
We look forward to reading and hearing the 2001, 2002, and 2003 editions.
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Title: The Best American Travel Writing 2001 by Paul Theroux, Jason Wilson ISBN: 0618118780 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Best American Travel Writing 2002 by Jason Wilson, Frances Mayes ISBN: 0618118802 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Best American Travel Writing 2003 by Ian Frazier, Jason Wilson ISBN: 0618118829 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 10 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson ISBN: 0380713802 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 06 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Travel Writing by Louisa Peat O'Neil ISBN: 1582970009 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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