The Best American Travel Writing 2016: Illuminating Essays on Why We Travel, Edited by Bestselling Author Bill Bryson

The Best American Travel Writing 2016: Illuminating Essays on Why We Travel, Edited by Bestselling Author Bill Bryson

<DIV><I>Why do I travel? Why does anyone of us travel? </I>Bill Bryson poses these questions in his introduction to <I>The Best American Travel Writing 2016</I>, and though he admits, €œI wasn€t at all sure I knew the answer,€ they are questions worthy of examination. While the various contributors to this collection all travel for different reasons, one thing is for certain€"they come back with stories. Whether traversing the Arctic by dogsled, attending a surreal film festival in North Korea, or strolling the streets of a fast-changing Havana, their insights into the world and the human condition are illuminating and enthralling, providing an answer: <I>This is why I like to travel</I>.<BR /><BR /><I>The Best American Travel Writing 2016</I> includes<I> </I>Michael Chabon, Alice Gregory, Paul Theroux, Dave Eggers, Helen Macdonald, Sara Corbett, Stephanie Pearson,Thomas Chatterton Williams, Pico Iyer, <I>and others</I><BR /><BR />BILL BRYSON, guest editor, is the best-selling author of <I>A Walk in the Woods;  A Short History of Nearly Everything;</I> <I>One Summer: America, 1927;</I> <I>The Road to Little Dribbling</I><I>;</I> and numerous other books.<BR /> <BR />JASON WILSON, series editor, is the author of <I>Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits; Spaghetti on the Wall;</I> and the forthcoming <I>Why Wine Matters.</I> He has written for the <I>Washington Post Magazine, The New Yorker</I>, the <I>New York Times</I>, and many other publications, and has won awards for Best Food Column from the Association of Food Journalists four times.</DIV>