The Best American Travel Writing 2015 in Bloomington, MN

In his introduction, guest editor Andrew McCarthy says that the best travel writing is “the anonymous and solitary traveler capturing a moment in time and place, giving meaning to his or her travels.” The stories in
The Best American Travel Writing 2015
demonstrate just that spirit, whether it is the story of a marine returning to Iraq a decade after his deployment, a writer retracing the footsteps of humanity as it spread from Africa throughout the world, or looking for love on a physics-themed cruise down the Rhone River. No matter what the subject, the writers featured in this volume boldly call out, “Yes, this matters. Follow me!”
includes
Iris Smyles, Paul Theroux, Christopher Solomon
Patricia Marx, Kevin Baker, Benjamin Busch, Maud Newton
Gary Shteyngart, Paul Salopek,
and others
ANDREW MCCARTHY, guest editor, is the author of the
New York Times
best-selling travel memoir
The Longest Way Home.
He has served as an editor at large at
National Geographic Traveler
and been named travel journalist of the year by the Society of American Travel Writers. He is also an actor and director.
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,
Philadelphia Daily News,
and many other publications. He is the founding editor of
The Smart Set
and
Table Matters.