The Best American travel writing 2013
By: edited and with an introduction by Elizabeth Gilbert ; Jason Wilson, series editor
Series: Best American series
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780547808987
Subjects: Anecdotes; American Short stories; Travel; Periodicals; Travelers' writings, American; Voyages and travels; Excerpts; Manners and customs; Travel writing; Intercultural communication
Other titles: Travel writing 2013
Description: Gifted authors don't just tell us about unique or out-of-the-way places; they take us to them, show us what they look like, show us who their people are, and make us feel like we've experienced them.
Notes: "A Mariner original."

Reprinted from various periodicals.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Jason Wilson; title: Introduction  -- Elizabeth Gilbert; title: A prison, a paradise -- from New York times magazine / -- John Jeremiah Sullivan; title: The bull passes through -- from Morning news / -- Kevin Chroust; title: The way I've come -- from Legal studies forum / -- Judy Copeland; title: Blot out -- from Creative nonfiction / -- Colleen Kinder; title: The year I didn't -- from Gulf Coast / -- Daniel Tyx; title: Tea and kidnapping -- from Atlantic / -- Sarah A. Topol; title: The paid piper -- from T magazine / -- Grant Stoddard; title: Dentists without borders -- from New Yorker / -- David Sedaris; title: Confessions of a packing minimalist -- from Travel + Leisure / -- Lynn Yaeger; title: Summerland -- from Travel + Leisure / -- Peter Jon Lindberg; title: The wild dogs of Istanbul -- from Smart set / -- Bernd Brunner; title: Bombing Sarajevo -- from Outside / -- Dimiter Kenarov; title: Vietnam's bowl of secrets -- from Afar / -- David Farley; title: Babu on the bad road -- from Virginia quarterly review / -- Jesse Dukes; title: The pippiest place on earth -- from New York times magazine / -- Sam Anderson; title: Dreaming of El Dorado -- from Virginia quarterly review / -- Marie Arana; title: Caliph of the tricksters -- from Harper's magazine / -- Christopher de Ballaigue; title: A farewell to yarns -- from Outside / -- Ian Frazier; title: Pirate City -- from Paris review / -- Rich Cohen; title: Contributors' notes --; title: Notable travel writing of 2012.