The best American travel writing 2020
(2020)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
910.4/BEST

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 910.4/BEST Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Boston : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020
DESCRIPTION

xxii, 311 pages ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780358362036, 0358362032, 9780358362036
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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

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

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