Best American Travel Writing 2009 Paperback - 2009
by Winchester, Simon
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Acclaimed writer Winchester brings his keen literary eye to this year's volume of the finest travel writing from the past year, providing a collection that is full of insights, humor, the exotic and distant, and the ordinary and near ("Library Journal").
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Details
- Title Best American Travel Writing 2009
- Author Winchester, Simon
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Original
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books
- Date 2009-10-08
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 45333838
- ISBN 9780618858668 / 0618858660
- Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 8.12 x 5.58 x 0.93 in (20.62 x 14.17 x 2.36 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Short stories, American, Travel
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00241161
- Dewey Decimal Code 910.4
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Summary
From the rear cover
The Best American Series
first, best, and best-selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected and most popular of its kind.
The Best American Travel Writing 2009 includes Andre Aciman, Roger Cohen, Lynne Cox, Bronwen Dickey, Kiran Desai, Chuck Klosterman, Tony Perrottet, Seth Stevenson, Patrick Symmes, Calvin Trillin, and others
Simon Winchester, editor, a British nonfiction writer living in New York, is the author, most recently, ofThe Man Who Loved China. He is currently working on a biography of the Atlantic Ocean.
Look for the other best-selling titles in the Best American series:
The Best American Comics
The Best American Essays
The Best American Mystery Stories
The Best American Nonrequired Reading
The Best American Science and Nature Writing
The Best American Short Stories
The Best American Sports Writing
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 10/15/2009, Page 18
- Library Journal, 11/01/2009, Page 84
- New York Times Book Review, 12/06/2009, Page 27
- Publisher's Weekly Annex, 11/30/2009, Page 0