Best American series.

Reprinted from various periodicals

A collection of the best travel writing published in 2019, selected by Alexandra Fuller

Overlooking Guantanamo / Benz, Stephen -- Great Divide / Crowell, Maddy -- Uncomfortable Silences: a walk in Myanmar / Fettling, David -- Finished / Gregory, Alice -- How the Chile Pepper took over the world / Gross, Matt -- I walked from Selma to Montgomery / Haile, Rahawa -- Morsi the Cat / Hessler, Peter -- A visit to Chernobyl:Travel in the Postapocalypse / Hewitt, Cameron -- Paper Tiger / Jarvis, Brooke -- Keepers of the Jungle / Knafo, Saki -- Mother Tongue / Loredo, Lucas -- Is this the most crowded island in the world? (and why that question matters) / MacGregor, Alex -- Taming the Lionfish / MacGregor, Jeff -- If these walls could talk / Markham, Lauren -- Floating world / Mauk, Ben -- Irmageddon / O'Neil, Devon -- Water and the wall / Paumgarten, Nick -- How Nashville became one big bachelorette party / Petersen, Anne Helen -- These brazilians traveled 19 hours on a riverboat to vote. I went with them / Sims, Shannon -- Cused fields / Sneider, Noah -- End of the line / Vollmann, William T. -- "The Greatest" / Wilson, Jason -- Tributary / Yen, Jessica -- Tourist Trap / Zha, Jianying