The Best American Travel Writing 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

An eclectic compendium of the best travel writing essays published in 2018, collected by Alexandra Fuller.Best American Travel Writing gathers together a satisfyingly varied medley of perspectives, all exploring what it means to travel somewhere new. For the past two decades, readers have come to recognize this annual volume as the gold standard for excellence in travel writing.Jason Wilson, series editor, is the author of Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits and the digital wine series Planet of the Grapes. He has written for the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Daily News, and many other publications. He is the founding editor of The Smart Set and Table Matters. An eclectic compendium of the best travel writing essays published in 2018, collected by Alexandra Fuller. BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING gathers together a satisfyingly varied medley of perspectives, all exploring what it means to travel somewhere new. For the past two decades, readers have come to recognize this annual volume as the gold standard for excellence in travel writing. Overlooking Guantanamo / Benz, Stephen -- The Great Divide / Crowell, Maddy -- Uncomfortable Silences: a walk in Myanmar / Fettling, David -- Finished / Gregory, Alice -- How the Chile Pepper took over the world / Gross, Matt -- I walked from Selma to Montgomery / Haile, Rahawa -- Morsi the Cat / Hessler, Peter -- A visit to Chernobyl:Travel in the Postapocalypse / Hewitt, Cameron -- Paper Tiger / Jarvis, Brooke -- Keepers of the Jungle / Knafo, Saki -- Mother Tongue / Loredo, Lucas -- Is this the most crowded island in the world? (and why that question matters) / MacGregor, Alex -- Taming the Lionfish / MacGregor, Jeff -- If these walls could talk / Markham, Lauren -- The floating world / Mauk, Ben -- Irmageddon / O'Neil, Devon -- Water and the wall / Paumgarten, Nick -- How Nashville became one big bachelorette party / Petersen, Anne Helen -- These Brazilians traveled 18 hours on a riverboat to vote. I went with them / Sims, Shannon -- Cursed fields / Sneider, Noah -- The end of the line / Vollmann, William T. -- "The Greatest" / Wilson, Jason -- Tributary / Yen, Jessica -- Tourist Trap / Zha, Jianying Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in the past year, selected from American magazines and newspapers The year's best travel writing, as chosen by series editor Jason Wilson and guest editor Alexandra Fuller A collection of the best travel writing published in 2019, selected by Alexandra Fuller