Authors:Bill Bryson, Jason Wilso,
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: writing, travel, american
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-10-26
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0618074678
ISBN-13: 9780618074679

The world may be getting smaller, but that doesn’t mean it’s any less varied, surprising, or exotic--as is made evident by the 25 essays collected in the inaugural edition of the Best American Travel Writing series. In search of America’s sharpest, most original, and often, most curious travel writers, editor Bill Bryson and series editor Jason Wilson sifted through hundreds of stories. What the resulting collection demonstrates is that, as Wilson writes, travel stories matter: Having a travel writer report on particular things, small things, the specific ways in which people