This book is our annual collection of the best travel writing of the year, much of it never published before, from big names in travel literature and emerging new writers. "The Best Travel Writing 2011" is the eighth volume in the annual "Travelers' Tales" series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing - from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine. In "The Best Travel Writing 2011": readers will sweat, suffer, and fall in love in Guyana; a traveler conducts his own detente in Russian baths; readers encounter the light of a stranger in Burma; an archaeologist digs up her own past in Greece; and, readers comprehend the nuances of bargaining in Senegal...and much more.
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James O'Reilly, publisher of Travelers' Tales, and Larry Habegger, executive editor, have worked as series editors on more than 100 Travelers' Tales titles, winning many awards for excellence. Larry also writes a syndicated newspaper column, "World Travel Watch," which has appeared since 1985 in major newspapers in five countries. James and Larry live with their families in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sean O'Reilly is coeditor of many Travelers' Tales books, and he is also the author of How to Manage Your DICK: Redirect Sexual Energy and Discover Your More Enlightened, Evolved Self. He lives in Virginia with his wife and six children.
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Educated in Africa, England, the USA and Canada, Dr. Cameron M. Smith teaches archaeology and human evolution at Portland State University and Linfield College. He has published in peer-reviewed research journals, written features for magazines such as 'Scientific American MIND' and 'Archaeology', and written several books. His award-winning travel writing has appeared in both magazines and anthologies. Away from his office, Cameron is an active SCUBA diver and paraglider pilot whose many expeditions have taken him from Africa to the Arctic. He is currently writing two books.
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I had expected something more light-hearted, I think. These essays were almost all somewhat depressing in their contect. I would have liked a greater mixture of material, and I suspect there are plenty of literary pieces that would meet the test.
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I'm not exactly sure why I didn't enjoy this book. I guess it just wasn't what I was expecting and I found the tales that were in it boring.
Surprised to be disappointed.
Surprised to be disappointed.
