The best American travel writing 2017
By: edited with an introduction by Lauren Collins ; Jason Wilson, series editor
Series: The best American series
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781328745736
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Travel writing; Excerpts; Anecdotes; Travel; Periodicals; Travelers' writings, American
Description: Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in 2017, selected from magazines, newspapers, and web sites.
Notes: "A Mariner original."

Reprinted from various periodicals.
Table of contents: title: Cover story  -- Elif Batuman; title: My Holy Land vacation  -- Tom Bissell; title: Chiefing in Cherokee  -- Stephanie Elizondo Griest; title: Cliffhanger  -- Peter Frick-Wright; title: The ones who left  -- Jackie Hedeman; title: The big leap  -- Leslie Jamison; title: Refugees hear a foreign word: welcome  -- Jodi Kantor and Catrin Einhorn; title: Finding the forgotten  -- Randall Kenan; title: Waiting on a whale at the end of the world  -- Saki Knafo; title: Plum crazy  -- Gwendolyn Knapp; title: Land of the lost  -- David Kushner; title: On the road  -- Gideon Lewis-Kraus; title: The secrets of the wood wide web  -- Robert Macfarlane; title: Volunteering for the harvest  -- Ann Mah; title: The away team  -- Alexis Okeowo; title: A palpable history  -- Tim Parks; title: Eva, she kill her one daughter  -- Shelley Puhak; title: One person means alone  -- Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers; title: Citizen Khan  -- Kathryn Schulz; title: No amount of traffic or Instagrammers or drunks can take the magic out of (semi-) wilderness  -- Wells Tower; title: My father's house  -- Reggie Ugwu; title: The currency of moons -- Kim Wyatt.