Description

The Best Travel Writing 2007 is the fourth volume in the annual Best Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing—from Nobel Prize winners to emerging writers. These 29 stories cover the globe, from probing the depths of a culture in Jerusalem to riding the rails in India and trying to save a life in Costa Rica. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, absolute hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine.

Praise for The Best Travel Writing Series

“Travelers’ Tales books are a sweet relief indeed. These titles luxuriate in that complicated, beautiful, shadowy place where the best stories begin, and the most compelling characters roam free. The Best Travelers’ Tales 2004 is a collection of memories from travelers who visit both the exotic and the familiar, and come away with rich stories ... a zesty mix.”
—ForeWord Magazine

“Travelers’ Tales has thrived by seizing on our perpetual fascination for armchair traveling (there is a whole line of site-specific anthologies) including this annual roundup of delightful (and sometimes dreadful) wayfaring adventures from all corners of the globe.”
—The Washington Post

“The Best Travel Writing 2006: True Stories from Around the World: Here are intimate revelations, mind-changing pilgrimages, and body-challenging peregrinations. And there’s enough to keep one happily reading until the 2007 edition.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“There is no danger of tourist brochure writing in this collection. The story subjects themselves are refreshingly odd.... For any budding writer looking for good models to learn by or any experienced writer looking for ideas on where the form can go, The Best Travel Writing 2005 is an inspiration. And a fine read for anyone who is missing the open road.”
—Transitions Abroad

“Travelers’ Tales, a publisher which has taken the travel piece back into the public mind as a serious category, has a volume out titled The Best Travel Writing 2005 which, to my mind, wipes out its best-of competitors completely. During the deeps of the winter, this one, taken a bit at a time, may just preserve your sanity and calm down your itchy foot.”
—The Courier-Gazette

Extended Copyright Information

Copyright 2007 Travelers’ Tales, Inc. All rights reserved.

Previously published by Solas House, Inc.

About the Author

James O'Reilly, publisher of Travelers' Tales, was born in England and raised in San Francisco. He graduated from Dartmouth College and wrote mystery serials before becoming a travel writer in the early 1980s. He's visited more than forty-five countries, along the way meditating with monks in Tibet, participating in West African voodoo rituals, living in the French Alps, and hanging out the laundry with nuns in Florence and penguins in Antarctica. He travels extensively with his wife, Wenda, and their three daughters. They live in Palo Alto, California, where they also publish art games and books for children at Birdcage Press (www.birdcagepress.com).

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Opening Lines (Experimental)

“Come to the Edge,” he said.
“Come to the edge,” he said.
They came.
He pushed them ...
And they flew.
WE TRAVEL TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND, A COUNTRY, A people, perhaps ourselves. We may fail to find what we’re searching for, but we’re many miles ahead of the stay-at-homes who’ve not ...

Copyright

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