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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Best American Travel Writing 2004di Pico Iyer (A cura di), Jason Wilson (A cura di)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This had been hiding on my shelf for years when I decided to pick it up. A good selection of travel stories from a variety of sources including The New Yorker, Travel+Leisure, National Geographic, Slate.com... The stories are personal and immerse you in these locations and situations. My favorites - Romance, Segways in Paris, The Wrong Side of the Cape, and Gangsta War. ( ) Of the various Best American anthologies published each year by Houghton Mifflin, I regularly read the Fiction, Sports Writing, and Travel Writing. Curiously, though, I would have to say that the Travel Writing series is the most reliable read on a year-in, year-out basis. Some years have more “heavy” stories; others concentrate more on humorous fare. Invariably, though, I emerge having learned a good deal about many parts of the world that I’ll likely never visit. The 2004 anthology is as good as any. The tone is pretty balanced—there are many pieces about places in the world facing challenges, including a resort attempting to get off the ground in war-torn Kashmir; a depressing tale of the deterioration of the Ivory Coast, an erstwhile African jewel; mountain gorillas under siege by the war in the Congo; and a curious piece about a writer trying to cross the border into Burma. For me, the best piece of all was one on Barre, Vermont of all places. The essay focuses on a local radio station and a diner that features almost nothing but food grown within 50 miles. This was a story that made me question whether I’m doing the right thing by saving a few bucks via amazon.com as opposed to pumping more money into the Brookline Booksmith. Without getting too preachy, that piece talks about what we’ve lost as a nation by having amazingly little local radio or local anything, really. This is a highly recommended series and should be a must-read each year, even if you’re purely an armchair traveler. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In his thought-provoking and witty introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2004, Pico Iyer explores American travel writing from the viewpoint of a non-American. He writes, "For many Americans, living in a country that borders few others and at a time when only one in three fellow citizens holds a passport, travel is the only way to get a living, human sense of the world around us . . . The best American travel writing is still lit up, I think, by that spirit of transcendence lessvisible abroad." Iyer has chosen twenty-six pieces that revel in rich discovery and brave experience both near and far away. Roger Angell remembers a sense of adventure during childhood car trips in New York (one taken with E. B. White, his future stepfather). Tim Cahill describes the joy of trekking in Patagonia, his "new favorite place on earth." Heather Eliot writes of a fevered love affair in the South Pacific, and Tad Friend hilariously tells of introducing Segways to Paris. George Packer recalls his time as a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa and the swirl of political unrest there. These varied and fascinating travel pieces show that the search for understanding is alive and well in this country, and that Americans are more eager than ever to search for, as Iyer writes, "something deeper and more lasting." Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)818.5408Literature English (North America) Authors, American and American miscellany 20th Century 1945-1999 ProseClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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