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Highlights
- Number-one New York Times best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed: A Love Story, Elizabeth Gilbert transports readers to far-flung locales with this collection of the year's lushest and most inspiring travel writing.
- Author(s): Jason Wilson
- 240 Pages
- Travel, Essays & Travelogues
- Series Name: Best American
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About the Book
A collection of the best travel writing pieces published in American periodicals during 2012.
Book Synopsis
Number-one New York Times best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed: A Love Story, Elizabeth Gilbert transports readers to far-flung locales with this collection of the year's lushest and most inspiring travel writing.From the Back Cover
The Best American Series(r)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 magazines, journals, and websites. 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 2013 includes
Marie Arana, Bernd Brunner, Kevin Chroust, Ian FrazerDimiter Kenarov, David Sedaris, Grant Stoddard, John Jeremiah SullivanSarah A. Topol, Lynne Yaeger, and others
[INSERT AUTHOR PHOTO] ELIZABETH GILBERT is the author of four books, has been a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and has had pieces published in Spin, GQ, and The New York Times Magazine. She is best known for her memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, which chronicles her travels around the world. Her new novel, The Signature of All Things, will be released in fall 2013.
Look for the other best-selling titles in the Best American series:
THE BEST AMERICAN COMICSTHE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYSTHE BEST AMERICAN INFOGRAPHICSTHE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIESTHE BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READINGTHE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITINGTHE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIESTHE BEST AMERICAN SPORTS WRITING"
Review Quotes
Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love, 2006), guest editor of the latest volume in this always rich yearly anthology, boldly avers that she chose travel stories that "were told the most marvelously in 2012." All the pieces included here are treasures of excellent writing, regardless of genre. - Booklist The latest installment of the travel-writing series upholds the tradition of world-expanding excellence.The wonder continues in the fact that, regardless of subject, each story takes its place in the collection proudly and deservedly. - Kirkus --