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The Best American Travel Writing 2019 Paperback – October 1, 2019

by Jason Wilson (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars 114 ratings

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.

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  1. Part of series
    The Best American: Travel Writing
  2. Print length
    400 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Mariner Books
  5. Publication date
    October 1, 2019
  6. Dimensions
    5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0358094232
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0358094234
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"One satisfying read after another. Whether consumed cover to cover or savored piece by piece, this newest collection is a worthy addition to travel literature."—Booklist  —

About the Author

JASON WILSON, series editor, is the author of Godforsaken Grapes, Boozehound, and The Cider Revival. He is the creator of the newsletter and podcast Everyday Drinking. Wilson has been the series editor of The Best American Travel Writing since its inception in 2000. His work can be found at jasonwilson.com.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mariner Books (October 1, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0358094232
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0358094234
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars 114 ratings

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JASON WILSON is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Cider Revival, Boozehound and Godforsaken Grapes. The series editor for Best American Travel Writing since its inception in 2000, Wilson has also written for the Washington Post, the New York Times, The New Yorker, and many others.

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  • Holly
    5.0 out of 5 stars Best of best!!!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2020
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    I really loved some of the essays!!!
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  • Stephanie A. Pearson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Inspiration
    Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2019
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    Great inspiration!
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  • Nathan V
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great weekend read
    Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2020
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    An excellent narrative for reading about travel with a variety of ways to write about travel.

    It is very descriptive in nature rather than holding a conversational narrative tone.
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  • Stuart P Salomon
    3.0 out of 5 stars Should the series be considered for Required Summer Reading?
    Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2020
    My interest in The Best Travel Writing stems from my role as a consultant to an international educational board. I found myself hoping to recommend Summer Reading Lists in light of the virus pandemic. Travel Writing seemed a timely substitute when student travel plans are in disarray.
    However, my reading was channeled by a comment made by Jason Wilson in his introduction to the 2019 edition, “There’s been a lot of ‘reimagining’ of travel writing in the last few years…And I can understand why. There is a lot of bad travel writing. And bad travel writing can be self-indulgent, ill-in-formed, overwrought with purple prose, and lacking context.”
    Wilson’s worry is justified; a review of this year’s edition contains both highs and lows. The low can be found in an essay about discovering Myanmar. The writer offers an introduction that features his meeting with a native guide who is nothing more than a cypher, a description of the writer’s bowel problems, and done in a style that would not pass Freshman Composition (35 personal ‘I’s).
    But the collection also contains some brilliant writing. I liked the one in which the writer reviewed Victorian travel guides—how terribly prescriptive they were--how to dress; how to collect sights; how to record the distinctive smells. Then the writer applied his discovery of Victorian writing methods to a visit to a downstate Illinois mall!
    Maybe the genre could rebrand itself as ‘discovery lit.’ There was no disappointment from the article in which the writer goes to Turkey to discover her grandparents’ home, and her greater discovery how she, as an independent American woman, discovers how wearing the veil opens up doors to Turkish society.
    I will recommend Best American Travel writing as a summer reading experience. But I will do it as a former English teacher. The Assignment: Get a copy of an annual collection. Read 10 or 12 essays. Make 2 categories: Effective Writing/Ineffective Writing. When school resumes present your (justified) list to your English teacher.
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  • T
    2.0 out of 5 stars No politics please
    Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2020
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    Unfortunately this series has increasingly ventured into the political arena, and it is one sided. I have been reading for fifteen years but sadly this will likely be my last one.
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  • David C Howell
    1.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected. More lecture stories than travel stories.
    Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2019
    Although there are a few interesting travel stories it seems many where selected to advocate, sometimes politically, the editor's point of view. I expected a collection of travel stories maybe not on par with writers like Paul Theroux but not stories with narratives against border protection, energy production and dissing foreign and domestic leaders. Good travel writing affords us escape not lectures about what's supposed to be right or wrong.
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  • Frances D. Dillon
    2.0 out of 5 stars Political propaganda disguised as travel writing.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2020
    I enjoy food and travel writing that makes you think. I can appreciate a point made while writing for informing and entertaining. However, this years compilation has a definite agenda. Which is. “We hate Trump and his policies.” Whether you agree or not it gets old less than halfway through the book. Anyone who doesn’t agree will not read much of it, and those who do are already on the editors side, so what’s the point? I want travel writing that takes me there, helps me understand the local customs, and broadens my horizons. This does not do that.
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  • Headscratcher
    1.0 out of 5 stars Disgracefully politicized
    Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2020
    Infected by the kind of political correctness an insecure editor thinks will win him applause. Bend over, it's time for your travel story! No guest editor this year to temper worse instincts, so perhaps that's why. But then, taken as a whole, this series tends to feature a lot of safe, usual suspects from the major venues incapable of bringing off the kind of original, writerly writing of yore. It has become a statement in microcosm of everything that is wrong with journalism today and the limbo-low bar when it comes to these Best Ofs anthologies.
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